3.3
CWE
264
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2012-2120

First published: Fri May 18 2012(Updated: )

latex2man in texlive-extra-utils 2011.20120322, and possibly other versions or packages, when used with the H or T option, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

Credit: secalert@redhat.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Debian Texlive-extra-utils=2011.20120322

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