SB2014100705 - Link following in DAGOLDEN Capture-Tiny
Published: October 7, 2014 Updated: August 10, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2014100705
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Data manipulation
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Link following (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-1875)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to manipulate or delete data.
The Capture::Tiny module before 0.24 for Perl allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/DAGOLDEN/Capture-Tiny-0.24/Changes
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128823.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128882.html
- http://osvdb.org/102963
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/267
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/272
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56823
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65475
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737835
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062424
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/91464
- https://github.com/dagolden/Capture-Tiny/commit/635c9eabd52ab8042b0c841823bd6e692de87924
- https://github.com/dagolden/Capture-Tiny/issues/16