Insecure Temporary File Affecting readline package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.04% (6th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS6-READLINE-1947710
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 14 Mar 2014
Introduced: 14 Mar 2014
CVE-2014-2524 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Centos:6
readline
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream readline
package and not the readline
package as distributed by Centos
.
See How to fix?
for Centos:6
relevant fixed versions and status.
The _rl_tropen function in util.c in GNU readline before 6.3 patch 3 allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /var/tmp/rltrace.[PID] file.
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0319.html
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-2524
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-July/135686.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:154
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:132
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077023
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2014-03/msg00057.html
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/579
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/587
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00037.html