CVE-2013-4159

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-08-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

ctdb before 2.3 in OpenSUSE 12.3 and 13.1 does not create temporary files securely, which has unspecified impact related to "several temp file vulnerabilities" in (1) tcp/tcp_connect.c, (2) server/eventscript.c, (3) tools/ctdb_diagnostics, (4) config/gdb_backtrace, and (5) include/ctdb_private.h.

Affected products

Ctdb Project Ctdb: through 2.2; 2.0, 2.1
Mageia: 3.0, 4.0
Opensuse: 12.3, 13.1

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0274.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-06/msg00052.html
http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/CTDB2releaseNotes#ctdb_2.5
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:177
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/29/12
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=986773
https://git.samba.org/?p=ctdb.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=b9b9f6738fba5c32e87cb9c36b358355b444fb9b
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0274.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-06/msg00052.html
http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/CTDB2releaseNotes#ctdb_2.5
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:177
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/29/12

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