Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability in localepurge

CVE-2014-1638 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

(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.

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