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  • Committer: Steve Beattie
  • Date: 2019-02-19 06:18:27 UTC
  • Revision ID: sbeattie@ubuntu.com-20190219061827-oh57fzcfc1u9dlfk
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PublicDateAtUSN: 2013-09-25
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Candidate: CVE-2013-1444
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PublicDate: 2013-09-30
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References:
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 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-1444
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 https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1979-1
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Description:
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 A certain Debian patch for txt2man 1.5.5, as used in txt2man 1.5.5-2,
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 1.5.5-4, and others, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a
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 symlink attack on /tmp/2222.
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Ubuntu-Description:
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Notes:
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 sarnold> "echo $post > /tmp/2222" -- looks like unsafe quoting, too.
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Bugs:
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 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=724614
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Priority: medium
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Discovered-by: Patrick J Cherry
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Assigned-to: mdeslaur
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Tags_txt2man: symlink-restriction hardlink-restriction
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Patches_txt2man:
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upstream_txt2man: needed
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lucid_txt2man: ignored (reached end-of-life)
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precise_txt2man: released (1.5.5-4ubuntu0.12.04.1)
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quantal_txt2man: released (1.5.5-4ubuntu0.12.10.1)
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raring_txt2man: released (1.5.5-4ubuntu0.13.04.1)
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devel_txt2man: released (1.5.5-4ubuntu1)