VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-2524

low
Published 2014-08-20 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
3.3

Description

The _rl_tropen function in util.c in GNU readline before 6.3 patch 3 allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /var/tmp/rltrace.[PID] file.

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
fedora Fedora Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
20 Affected —
suse SUSE Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
13.1 Affected —
12.3 Affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnureadline{"endIncluding":"6.3"}
gnureadline2.1
gnureadline2.2
gnureadline4.0
gnureadline4.1
gnureadline4.2
gnureadline4.3
gnureadline5.0
gnureadline5.1
gnureadline5.2
gnureadline6.0
gnureadline6.1
gnureadline6.2

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.