{
  "modified": "2025-08-09T19:01:27Z",
  "published": "2014-01-28T00:55:04Z",
  "id": "CVE-2014-1638",
  "details": "(1) debian/postrm and (2) debian/localepurge.config in localepurge before 0.7.3.2 use tempfile to create a safe temporary file but appends a suffix to the original filename and writes to this new filename, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the new filename.",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736359"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/22/3"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/22/4"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.osvdb.org/102379"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.osvdb.org/102381"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65098"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/90669"
    }
  ]
}