pyxdg: symlink attacks
| Package(s): | pyxdg | CVE #(s): | CVE-2014-1624 | ||||||||||||
| Created: | December 22, 2014 | Updated: | January 5, 2015 | ||||||||||||
| Description: | From the CVE entry:
Race condition in the xdg.BaseDirectory.get_runtime_dir function in python-xdg 0.25 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by pre-creating /tmp/pyxdg-runtime-dir-fallback-victim to point to a victim-owned location, then replacing it with a symlink to an attacker-controlled location once the get_runtime_dir function is called. | ||||||||||||||
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