UBUNTU-CVE-2014-1876

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2014-1876

    Published: 10 Feb 2014Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-1876

    Summary:

    Details: The unpacker::redirect_stdio function in unpack.cpp in unpack200 in OpenJDK 6, 7, and 8; Oracle Java SE 5.0u61, 6u71, 7u51, and 8; JRockit R27.8.1 and R28.3.1; and Java SE Embedded 7u51 does not securely create temporary files when a log file cannot be opened, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/unpack.log.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1876, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1060907, http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/285, http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/242, http://osvdb.org/102808, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737562, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2187-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2191-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-1876

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: openjdk-7

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

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -7u55-2.4.7-1ubuntu1

    Affected versions

    7u25-2.3.12-4ubuntu3
    7u25-2.3.12-4ubuntu5

    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
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