CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-1444
3.3 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-09-30
- 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-59
Description
A certain Debian patch for txt2man 1.5.5, as used in txt2man 1.5.5-2, 1.5.5-4, and others, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/2222.
Affected configurations
• debian txt2man 1.5.5-2
• debian txt2man 1.5.5-4
• marc vertes txt2man 1.5.5
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=724614 bugs.debian.org
- http://osvdb.org/97769 osvdb.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/660 seclists.org
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1979-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=724614 bugs.debian.org
- http://osvdb.org/97769 osvdb.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/660 seclists.org
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1979-1 www.ubuntu.com