CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-2120
3.3 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-05-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 3.3 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
latex2man in texlive-extra-utils 2011.20120322, and possibly other versions or packages, when used with the H or T option, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.
Affected configurations
• debian texlive-extra-utils 2011.20120322
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668779 bugs.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/19/12 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/19/15 www.openwall.com
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668779 bugs.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/19/12 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/19/15 www.openwall.com