CVE-2013-1444

Description

A certain Debian patch for txt2man 1.5.5, as used in txt2man 1.5.5-2, 1.5.5-4, and others, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/2222.

References

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1979-1

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/660

http://osvdb.org/97769

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=724614

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3