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HistoryMay 18, 2012 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2012-2120

2012-05-1800:00:00

ubuntu.com

3.3 Low

CVSS2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

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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.

Bugs

<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668779>

Notes

Author	Note
jdstrand	Ubuntu 10.10 have symlink protections in place

References

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/19

launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2012-2120

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2120

security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-2120

www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-2120

3.3 Low

CVSS2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

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