MGASA-2014-0319

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    MGASA-2014-0319

    Published: 6 Aug 2014Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-2524

    Summary: Updated readline packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: Steve Kemp discovered the _rl_tropen() function in readline insecurely handled a temporary file. This could allow a local attacker to perform symbolic link attacks (CVE-2014-2524). Also, upstream patches have been added to fix an infinite loop in vi input mode, and to fix an issue with slowness when pasting text.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0319.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13512, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-July/135686.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: readline

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/readline?arch=source&distro=mageia-3

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -6.2-7.1.mga3

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
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    High
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