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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-REQUESTTRACKER4-636343
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed23 Aug 2013

Introduced: 23 Aug 2013

CVE-2013-3368  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream request-tracker4 package and not the request-tracker4 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

bin/rt in Request Tracker (RT) 3.8.x before 3.8.17 and 4.0.x before 4.0.13 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file with predictable name.