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LIN7-1481 : Security Advisory - readline - CVE-2014-2524

Created: Nov 5, 2014 Updated: Mar 31, 2016

Resolved Date: Nov 5, 2014

Found In Version: 7.0

Fix Version: 7.0

Severity: Standard

Applicable for: Wind River Linux 7

Component/s: Userspace

Description

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.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-2524