Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in thermald via Symlink Attack on /tmp/thermald.pid

Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in thermald via Symlink Attack on /tmp/thermald.pid

CVE-2014-2312 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

The main function in android_main.cpp in thermald allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/thermald.pid.

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