First published: Thu Apr 17 2014(Updated: )
DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeViewKDE.py in Update Manager before 1:0.87.31.1, 1:0.134.x before 1:0.134.11.1, 1:0.142.x before 1:0.142.23.1, 1:0.150.x before 1:0.150.5.1, and 1:0.152.x before 1:0.152.25.5 does not properly create temporary files, which allows local users to obtain the XAUTHORITY file content for a user via a symlink attack on the temporary file.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
---|---|---|
Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =10.10 | |
Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =8.04 | |
Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =11.04 | |
Canonical Update-manager | =1\-0.152.25 | |
Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =11.10 | |
Canonical Update-manager | <=1\:0.87.24 | |
Canonical Update-manager | =1\-0.134.7 | |
Canonical Update-manager | =1\-0.142.19 | |
Canonical Update-manager | =1\-0.150 | |
Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =10.04 |
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