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Debian: CVE-2011-2684: foo2zjs -- security update

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Published

Oct 23, 2017

Added

Jul 30, 2024

Modified

Mar 30, 2026

Description

foo2zjs before 20110722dfsg-3ubuntu1 as packaged in Ubuntu, 20110722dfsg-1 as packaged in Debian unstable, and 20090908dfsg-5.1+squeeze0 as packaged in Debian squeeze create temporary files insecurely, which allows local users to write over arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/foo2zjs.

Solution

debian-upgrade-foo2zjs

References

CVE-2011-2684
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2011-2684
CWE-59
EUVD-EUVD-2011-2666
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2011-2666

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