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Debian: CVE-2014-3219: fish -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2014-3219: fish -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/09/2018
Created
07/31/2024
Added
07/30/2024
Modified
07/30/2024

Description

fish before 2.1.1 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) /tmp/fishd.log.%s, (2) /tmp/.pac-cache.$USER, (3) /tmp/.yum-cache.$USER, or (4) /tmp/.rpm-cache.$USER.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-fish

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