{"id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2014-1638","details":"(1) debian/postrm and (2) debian/localepurge.config in localepurge before 0.7.3.2 use tempfile 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.","modified":"2026-09-01T20:03:20.745547037Z","published":"2014-01-28T00:55:04.130Z","upstream":["CVE-2014-1638"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-1638"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"localepurge","ecosystem":"Debian:12","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/localepurge?arch=source&distro=bookworm"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.7.3.2"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-1638.json"}},{"package":{"name":"localepurge","ecosystem":"Debian:13","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/localepurge?arch=source&distro=trixie"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.7.3.2"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-1638.json"}},{"package":{"name":"localepurge","ecosystem":"Debian:14","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/localepurge?arch=source&distro=forky"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.7.3.2"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-1638.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0"}