Vulnerability CVE-2014-2524
Published: 2014-08-20

Description:
The _rl_tropen function in util.c in GNU readline before 6.3 patch 3 allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /var/tmp/rltrace.[PID] file.

Type:

CWE-59

 (Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following'))

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
3.3/10
4.9/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Opensuse -> Opensuse 
Novell -> Opensuse 
Mageia -> Mageia 
GNU -> Readline 
Fedoraproject -> Fedora 

 References:
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0319.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2014-03/msg00057.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00037.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/579
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/587
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:154
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:132
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077023
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-July/135686.html
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