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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1904-LIBXMLDTPERL-630466
  • published16 Aug 2014
  • disclosed16 Aug 2014

Introduced: 16 Aug 2014

CVE-2014-5260  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.04.

NVD Description

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

The (1) mkxmltype and (2) mkdtskel scripts in XML-DT before 0.64 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/xml##### temporary file.