Link Following The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package thermald  (opens in a new tab)


Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-THERMALD-606565
  • published19 Aug 2020
  • disclosed26 Mar 2018

Introduced: 26 Mar 2018

CVE-2014-2312  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream thermald package and not the thermald package as distributed by Debian.

The main function in android_main.cpp in thermald allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/thermald.pid.