CVE-2014-2524
First published: Mon Mar 17 2014(Updated: )
Steve Kemp discovered the _rl_tropen() function in readline, a set of libraries to handle command lines, insecurely handled a temporary file. This could allow a local attacker to perform symbolic link attacks. As noted in the CVE request, _rl_tropen() is typically only called during debugging. CVE request: <a href="http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/579">http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/579</a>
Credit: cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Mageia Mageia | =3.0 | |
| Mageia Mageia | =4.0 | |
| GNU readline | <=6.3 | |
| GNU readline | =2.1 | |
| GNU readline | =2.2 | |
| GNU readline | =4.0 | |
| GNU readline | =4.1 | |
| GNU readline | =4.2 | |
| GNU readline | =4.2-a | |
| GNU readline | =4.3 | |
| GNU readline | =5.0 | |
| GNU readline | =5.1 | |
| GNU readline | =5.2 | |
| GNU readline | =6.0 | |
| GNU readline | =6.1 | |
| GNU readline | =6.2 | |
| openSUSE openSUSE | =12.3 | |
| openSUSE openSUSE | =13.1 | |
| Fedoraproject Fedora | =20 |
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Reference Links
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/579
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=1077026
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=1077035
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-2524
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/588
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2014-03/msg00057.html
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/readline.git/commit/?id=8408f86
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/ftp:/ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/readline-6.3-patches/readline63-003
- https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077023
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0319.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00037.html
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/587
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:154
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:132
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-July/135686.html
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