Vulnerability in Debian Lintian

CVE-2004-1000

lintian 1.23 and earlier removes the working directory even if it was not created by lintian, which may allow local users to delete arbitrary files or directories via a symlink attack.

EPSS: 0.004 (26.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Debian Lintian — versions 1.2_0.17.1
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)