Link Following The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package localepurge (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1510-LOCALEPURGE-632387
- published10 Sept 2020
- disclosed28 Jan 2014
Introduced: 28 Jan 2014
CVE-2014-1638 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:15.10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream localepurge package and not the localepurge package as distributed by Ubuntu.
(1) debian/postrm and (2) debian/localepurge.config in localepurge before 0.7.3.2 use tempfile to create a safe temporary file but appends a suffix to the original filename and writes to this new filename, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the new filename.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-1638
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65098
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736359
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/22/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/22/4
- http://www.osvdb.org/102379
- http://www.osvdb.org/102381
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/90669