USN-1979-1: txt2man vulnerability
3
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
09/30/2013
07/25/2018
04/08/2014
07/09/2020
Description
A certain Debian patch for txt2man 1.5.5, as used in txt2man 1.5.5-2, 1.5.5-4, and others, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/2222.
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-txt2man
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