CVE-2011-4363

Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 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: 2012-10-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

ProcessTable.pm in the Proc::ProcessTable module 0.45 for Perl, when TTY information caching is enabled, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/TTYDEVS.

Affected products

Frii Proc::Processtable: 0.45

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=650500
http://secunia.com/advisories/47015
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/30/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/30/3
http://www.osvdb.org/77428
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50868
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-4363
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=72862
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=650500
http://secunia.com/advisories/47015
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/30/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/30/3

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