CVE-2014-2524

LowCVSS 3.3/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

The _rl_tropen function in util.c in GNU readline before 6.3 patch 3 allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /var/tmp/rltrace.[PID] file.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 3.3/10AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Weakness enumeration

CWE-59

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0319.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2014-03/msg00057.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00037.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/579Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/587Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:154Broken Link
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:132Broken Link
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077023Issue Tracking
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-July/135686.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0319.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2014-03/msg00057.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00037.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/579Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/587Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:154Broken Link
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:132Broken Link
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077023Issue Tracking
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-July/135686.htmlThird Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Aug 20, 2014
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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