CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-4910
4.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-07-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in tools/backlight_helper.c in X.Org xf86-video-intel 2.99.911 allows remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the interface name.
Affected configurations
• x xf86-video-intel 2.99.911
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-commit/2014-July/036840.html lists.x.org
- http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/108851 osvdb.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/138 seclists.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/39 seclists.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/94746 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-commit/2014-July/036840.html lists.x.org
- http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/108851 osvdb.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/138 seclists.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/39 seclists.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/94746 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com