Vulnerability CVE-2014-1638
Published: 2014-01-27   Modified: 2014-01-28

Description:
(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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
Getting tempfile/mktemp wrong
Helmut
22.01.2014

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
Debian -> Localepurge 

 References:
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/90669
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65098
http://www.osvdb.org/102381
http://www.osvdb.org/102379
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/22/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/22/3
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736359
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