CVE-2014-2524

Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-08-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

The _rl_tropen function in util.c in GNU readline before 6.3 patch 3 allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /var/tmp/rltrace.[PID] file.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 20
GNU Readline: through 6.3; 2.1, 2.2, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.2-a (+7)
Mageia: 3.0, 4.0
Opensuse: 12.3, 13.1

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0319.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2014-03/msg00057.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00037.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/579
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/587
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:154
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:132
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077023
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-July/135686.html
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0319.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2014-03/msg00057.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00037.html

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