CVE-2011-3616

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-11-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

The getSkillname function in the eve module in Conky 1.8.1 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/.cesf.

Affected products

Conky: through 1.8.1; 1.1, 1.2, 1.3.0, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3 (+21)

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612033
http://secunia.com/advisories/43225
http://secunia.com/advisories/46353
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201110-09.xml
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/09/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/10/8
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/conky/+bug/607309
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612033
http://secunia.com/advisories/43225
http://secunia.com/advisories/46353
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201110-09.xml
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/09/4

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