1.9
CWE
59
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2011-3154

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 SoftwareAffected VersionHow 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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