FKIE_CVE-2014-1420

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2020-09-11 00:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:04
Severity
3.8 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
3.3 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Summary
On desktop, Ubuntu UI Toolkit's StateSaver would serialise data on tmp/ files which an attacker could use to expose potentially sensitive data. StateSaver would also open files without the O_EXCL flag. An attacker could exploit this to launch a symlink attack, though this is partially mitigated by symlink and hardlink restrictions in Ubuntu. Fixed in 1.1.1188+14.10.20140813.4-0ubuntu1.
References
security@ubuntu.comhttp://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-sdk-team/ubuntu-ui-toolkit/staging/revision/1182Patch, Third Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://launchpad.net/bugs/1348241Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-sdk-team/ubuntu-ui-toolkit/staging/revision/1182Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://launchpad.net/bugs/1348241Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
canonical ubuntu-ui-toolkit *
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