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CVE-2014-2524

Date: August 20, 2014

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.

Severity Score

Related Resources (12)

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:154
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-July/135686.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2014-03/msg00057.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:132
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-2524
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077023
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-2524
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0319.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/579
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/587
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00037.html
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2014-2524

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

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

CWE-59

CVSS v3.1

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

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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