UBUNTU-CVE-2014-1638

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2014-1638

    Published: 28 Jan 2014Last Modified: 16 Jul 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-1638

    Summary:

    Details: (1) debian/postrm and (2) debian/localepurge.config in localepurge before 0.7.3.2 use tempfile to create a safe temporary file but appends a suffix to the original filename and writes to this new filename, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the new filename.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1638, http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/90669, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/22/4, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/22/3, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736359, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-1638

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: localepurge

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

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.7.3.2

    Affected versions

    0.7.2
    0.7.3
    0.7.3.1

    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