CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-3616
6.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-11-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.3 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Description
The getSkillname function in the eve module in Conky 1.8.1 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/.cesf.
Affected configurations
• conky conky (<= 1.8.1)
• conky conky 1.1
• conky conky 1.2
• conky conky 1.3.0
• conky conky 1.3.1
• conky conky 1.3.2
• conky conky 1.3.3
• conky conky 1.3.4
• conky conky 1.3.5
• conky conky 1.4.0
• conky conky 1.4.1
• conky conky 1.4.2
• conky conky 1.4.3
• conky conky 1.4.4
• conky conky 1.4.5
• conky conky 1.4.6
• conky conky 1.4.7
• conky conky 1.4.8
• conky conky 1.4.9
• conky conky 1.5.0
• conky conky 1.5.1
• conky conky 1.6.0
• conky conky 1.6.1
• conky conky 1.7.0
• conky conky 1.7.1
• conky conky 1.7.1.1
• conky conky 1.7.2
• conky conky 1.8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612033 Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43225 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46353 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201110-09.xml www.gentoo.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/09/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/10/8 www.openwall.com
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/conky/+bug/607309 bugs.launchpad.net
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612033 Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43225 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46353 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201110-09.xml www.gentoo.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/09/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/10/8 www.openwall.com
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/conky/+bug/607309 bugs.launchpad.net