CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-1838
4.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-03-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Description
The (1) extract_keys_from_pdf and (2) fill_pdf functions in pdf_ext.py in logilab-commons before 0.61.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and possibly have other unspecified impact via a symlink attack on /tmp/toto.fdf.
Affected configurations
• opensuse opensuse 12.3
• opensuse opensuse 13.1
• logilab logilab-common (<= 0.60.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/11986 comments.gmane.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00085.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57209 secunia.com
- http://www.logilab.org/ticket/207561 www.logilab.org
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737051 bugs.debian.org
- http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/11986 comments.gmane.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00085.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57209 secunia.com
- http://www.logilab.org/ticket/207561 www.logilab.org
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737051 bugs.debian.org