suse · CVE-2014-2524

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Priority: low Published: 2021-05-30 13:20:11 UTC Updated: 2026-04-18 18:41:01 UTC

View at Official suse advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail

Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2014-2524 severity low: SUSE including 369 source package names (amazon/suse-sles-15-sp1-chost-byos-v20210304-hvm-ssd-x86_64, amazon/suse-sles-15-sp1-chost-byos-v20220127-hvm-ssd-x86_64, …), 443 product×package rows across 49 product lines (HPE Helion OpenStack 8, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12, … (49 product lines)): Known Affected 231, Fixed 191, Known Not Affected 21.

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.

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