CVE-2013-7171

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-11-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Slackware 14.0 and 14.1, and Slackware LLVM 3.0-i486-2 and 3.3-i486-2, contain world-writable permissions on the /tmp directory which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.

Affected products

Slackware Linux: 14.0, 14.1

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/20/1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-7171
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/89915
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-7171
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/20/1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-7171
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/89915
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-7171

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