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CVE-2014-1638

CVE-2014-1638

EPSS 0.4%
(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.
Affected products
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References
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736359https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/90669http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/22/3http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/22/4http://www.osvdb.org/102379http://www.osvdb.org/102381http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65098