CVE-2013-0159 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Severity

36%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

81%

The fedora-business-cards package before 1-0.1.beta1.fc17 on Fedora 17 and before 1-0.1.beta1.fc18 on Fedora 18 allows local users to cause a denial of service or write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/fedora-business-cards-buffer.svg.

The fedora-business-cards package before 1-0.1.beta1.fc17 on Fedora 17 and before 1-0.1.beta1.fc18 on Fedora 18 allows local users to cause a denial of service or write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/fedora-business-cards-buffer.svg.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 3.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Fedora

First reported 7 years ago

2018-05-01 19:29:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-06-13 16:51:00

Affected Software

Fedora 17

17

Fedora 18

18

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892299

Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892815

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory

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