Link Following The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package logilab-common (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published11 Mar 2014
- disclosed11 Mar 2014
Introduced: 11 Mar 2014
CVE-2014-1838 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream logilab-common package and not the logilab-common package as distributed by Ubuntu.
The (1) extract_keys_from_pdf and (2) fill_pdf functions in pdf_ext.py in logilab-commons before 0.61.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and possibly have other unspecified impact via a symlink attack on /tmp/toto.fdf.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-1838
- http://www.logilab.org/ticket/207561
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737051
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-1838
- http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/11986
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00085.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57209