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CVE-2014-2524

medium

Description

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

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-July/135686.html

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/587

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/579

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00037.html

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0319.html

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2014-2560

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077023

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:132

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:154

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2014-03/msg00057.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2014-08-20

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00157