GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2014-390

Advisory Published

Vulnetix · Advisory published September 26, 2014

Updated perl-XML-DT package fixes security vulnerability: The mkxmltype and mkdtskel scripts provided in perl-XML-DT allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/_xml_##### temporary file (CVE-2014-5260).

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Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions	Platforms
Mageia	perl-XML-DT	0 (affected), 0.660.0-1.mga4 (unaffected)	—
Mageia	perl-XML-DT	0 (affected), 0.660.0-1.mga3 (unaffected)	—

Aliases

CVE-2014-5260

References

Updated perl-XML-DT package fix CVE-2014-5260

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Updated perl-XML-DT package fix CVE-2014-5260

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Updated perl-XML-DT package fix CVE-2014-5260

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