vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2014-1420): ubuntu-ui-toolkit vulnerability

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Sep 11, 2020
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Aug 19, 2025

Description

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.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-ubuntu-ui-toolkit
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