CVE-2014-1838
N/A
Published: March 11, 2014 at 03:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:05 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsopenSUSELogilab Common
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
Description
The (1) extract_keys_from_pdf and (2) fill_pdf functions in pdf_ext.py in logilab-commons before 0.61.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and possibly have other unspecified impact via a symlink attack on /tmp/toto.fdf.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
v ≤ 0.60.0
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (5)
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/11986Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00085.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737051Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-59
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