CVE-2013-1444

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Published 2013-09-30 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
3.3

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.5.5-4.1
sid Fixed 1.5.5-4.1
forky Fixed 1.5.5-4.1
bullseye Fixed 1.5.5-4.1
bookworm Fixed 1.5.5-4.1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
debian debiantxt2man1.5.5-2
debian debiantxt2man1.5.5-4
marc_vertestxt2man1.5.5

References

CWEs

CWE-59

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.