Symlink Attack Vulnerability in GNU Readline's _rl_tropen Function

CVE-2014-2524 · LOW Severity

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

The _rl_tropen function in util.c in GNU readline before 6.3 patch 3 allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /var/tmp/rltrace.[PID] file.

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