CVE-2011-3154

Severity: low (CVSS 1.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-04-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeViewKDE.py in Update Manager before 1:0.87.31.1, 1:0.134.x before 1:0.134.11.1, 1:0.142.x before 1:0.142.23.1, 1:0.150.x before 1:0.150.5.1, and 1:0.152.x before 1:0.152.25.5 does not properly create temporary files, which allows local users to obtain the XAUTHORITY file content for a user via a symlink attack on the temporary file.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 8.04, 10.04, 10.10, 11.04, 11.10
Canonical Update-Manager: through 1\:0.87.24; 1:0.134.7, 1:0.142.19, 1:0.150, 1:0.152.25

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/47024
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1284-1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/881541
http://secunia.com/advisories/47024
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1284-1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/881541

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