Vulnerability in Debian Localepurge

CVE-2014-1638

(1) debian/postrm and (2) debian/localepurge.config in localepurge before 0.7.3.2 use tempfile to create a safe temporary file but appends a suffix to the original filename and writes to this new filename, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the new filename.

EPSS: 0.004 (29.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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