UBUNTU-CVE-2012-2120

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2012-2120

    Published: 18 May 2012Last Modified: 16 Jul 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2012-2120

    Summary:

    Details: latex2man in texlive-extra-utils 2011.20120322, and possibly other versions or packages, when used with the H or T option, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-2120, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/19, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-2120

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: texlive-bin

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

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2013.20130729.30972-2build3

    Affected versions

    2013.20130529.30792-1build2

    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
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High