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CVE-2013-1444

Date: September 30, 2013

A certain Debian patch for txt2man 1.5.5, as used in txt2man 1.5.5-2, 1.5.5-4, and others, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/2222.

Severity Score

3.5

Related Resources (8)

Url: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=724614

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1979-1

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2013-1444

Url: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/660

Url: http://osvdb.org/97769

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-1444

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1444

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2013-1444

Severity Score

3.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Link Following

CWE-59

CVSS v3

Base Score:	3.5
Attack Vector (AV):
Attack Complexity (AC):
Privileges Required (PR):
User Interaction (UI):
Scope (S):
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.6
Access Vector (AV):
Access Complexity (AC):
Authentication (AU):
Confidentiality (C):	LOW
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	LOW
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