CVE-2014-1420 — Insecure temp file usage in Ubuntu UI toolkit
On desktop, Ubuntu UI Toolkit's StateSaver would serialise data on tmp/ files which an attacker could use to expose potentially sensitive data. StateSaver would also open files …
Published: 2020-09-10 · CVSS: 3.8 · CVSS 3.1
On desktop, Ubuntu UI Toolkit's StateSaver would serialise data on tmp/ files which an attacker could use to expose potentially sensitive data. StateSaver would also open files without the O_EXCL flag. An attacker could exploit this to launch a symlink attack, though this is partially mitigated by symlink and hardlink restrictions in Ubuntu. Fixed in 1.1.1188+14.10.20140813.4-0ubuntu1.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7