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National Vulnerability Database

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Vuln ID Summary CVSS Severity
CVE-2014-2524

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.

Published: August 20, 2014; 10:55:05 AM -0400 		V4.0:(not available)
 V3.x:(not available)
 V2.0: 3.3 LOW