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CVE-2014-1638

Status: ModifiedLow (3.3)—

(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.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Debian — Localepurge

CWEs

References

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