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CVE-2013-1444

• 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: 2013-09-30 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

A certain Debian patch for txt2man 1.5.5, as used in txt2man 1.5.5-2, 1.5.5-4, and others, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/2222.

Affected products

• Debian Txt2Man: 1.5.5-2, 1.5.5-4
• Marc Vertes Txt2Man: 1.5.5

References

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=724614
• http://osvdb.org/97769
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/660
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1979-1
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=724614
• http://osvdb.org/97769
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/660
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1979-1

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