(1) debian/postrm and (2) debian/localepurge.config in localepurge before 0.7.3.2 use tempfile to create a safe temporary file but appends a suffix to the original filename and writes to this new filename, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the new filename.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2014-01-28T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T09:50:09.783Z

Reserved: 2014-01-22T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2014-1638

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2014-01-28T00:55:04.130

Modified: 2017-08-29T01:34:26.560

Link: CVE-2014-1638

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