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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-LIBIMOBILEDEVICE-637115
  • published19 Jan 2014
  • disclosed19 Jan 2014

Introduced: 19 Jan 2014

CVE-2013-2142  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

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

userpref.c in libimobiledevice 1.1.4, when $HOME and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME are not set, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) HostCertificate.pem, (2) HostPrivateKey.pem, (3) libimobiledevicerc, (4) RootCertificate.pem, or (5) RootPrivateKey.pem in /tmp/root/.config/libimobiledevice/.