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CVE-2012-2120

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 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: 2012-05-18 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

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.

Affected products

• Debian Texlive-Extra-Utils: 2011.20120322

References

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668779
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/19/12
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/19/15
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668779
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/19/12
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/19/15

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