Vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux
CVE-2011-3154
DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeViewKDE.py in Update Manager before 1:0.87.31.1, 1:0.134.x before 1:0.134.11.1, 1:0.142.x before 1:0.142.23.1, 1:0.150.x before 1:0.150.5.1, and 1:0.152.x before 1:0.152.25.5 does not properly create temporary files, which allows local users to obtain the XAUTHORITY file content for a user via a symlink attack on the temporary file.
EPSS: 0.003 (25.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 8.04, 10.04, 10.10
- Canonical Update-manager — versions 1\
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)