CVE-2014-1639

syncevo/installcheck-local.sh in syncevolution before 1.3.99.7 uses mktemp 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.

Date published : 2014-01-27

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65098

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736357