Bug 534694 (CVE-2014-5260)

Summary:	<dev-perl/XML-DT-0.660.0: Symlink vulnerability (CVE-2014-5260)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot <glsamaker>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	perl
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	B3 [noglsa]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2015-01-04 19:14:55 UTC

CVE-2014-5260 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-5260):
  The (1) mkxmltype and (2) mkdtskel scripts in XML-DT before 0.64 allow local
  users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/_xml_#####
  temporary file.

Comment 1 Mikle Kolyada (RETIRED) archtester

2015-01-11 15:51:19 UTC

GLSA vote: no.

Comment 2 Sergey Popov gentoo-dev

2015-01-11 15:58:45 UTC

GLSA vote: no

Closing as noglsa