CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-3154

1.9 LOW Published 2014-04-17 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2014-04-17
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
1.9 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-59

Description

DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeViewKDE.py in Update Manager before 1:0.87.31.1, 1:0.134.x before 1:0.134.11.1, 1:0.142.x before 1:0.142.23.1, 1:0.150.x before 1:0.150.5.1, and 1:0.152.x before 1:0.152.25.5 does not properly create temporary files, which allows local users to obtain the XAUTHORITY file content for a user via a symlink attack on the temporary file.

Affected configurations

• canonical update-manager (<= 1\:0.87.24) • canonical update-manager 1\ • canonical ubuntu linux 8.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 10.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 10.10 • canonical ubuntu linux 11.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 11.10

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References