vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2014-2277: perltidy: insecure temporary file creation

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Oct 17, 2017
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

The make_temporary_filename function in perltidy 20120701-1 and earlier allows local users to obtain sensitive information or write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack, related to use of the tmpnam function.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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