Vulnerability CVE-2014-2893
Published: 2014-04-23

Description:
The GetHTMLRunDir function in the scan-build utility in Clang 3.5 and earlier allows local users to obtain sensitive information or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary directories with predictable names.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
clang-3.5 scan-build insecure use of /tmp
Jakub Wilk
16.04.2014

Type:

CWE-59

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

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
1.9/10
2.9/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Opensuse -> Opensuse 
Novell -> Opensuse 
LLVM -> Clang 

 References:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00038.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/16/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/20/1
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=744817
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