UBUNTU-CVE-2012-1088

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2012-1088

    Published: 15 Feb 2014Last Modified: 16 Jul 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2012-1088

    Summary:

    Details: iproute2 before 3.3.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file used by (1) configure or (2) examples/dhcp-client-script.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-1088, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-1088

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: iproute2

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.12.0-2

    Affected versions

    3.10.0-1ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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