CVE-2014-2524

Publication date 20 August 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Negligible

Why this priority?

The _rl_tropen function in util.c in GNU readline before 6.3 patch 3 allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /var/tmp/rltrace.[PID] file.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
readline6 15.10 wily
Not affected
15.04 vivid Ignored end of life
14.10 utopic Ignored end of life
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored
13.10 saucy Ignored end of life
12.10 quantal Ignored end of life
12.04 LTS precise Ignored
10.04 LTS lucid Ignored end of life

Notes

mdeslaur

the security issue is in a debugging function that isn’t used, we will not be publishing an update for this issue.