CVE-2012-1093

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Summary

CVECVE-2012-1093
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-02-21 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:10:00 UTC
DescriptionThe init script in the Debian x11-common package before 1:7.6+12 is vulnerable to a symlink attack that can lead to a privilege escalation during package installation.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-59

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Debian X11-common All All All All
Application Debian X11-common All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com Broken Link
oss-security - Re: CVE request: init script x11-common creates directories in insecure manners MISC www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
oss-security - Re: CVE request: init script x11-common creates directories in insecure manners MISC www.openwall.com Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[vladz.devzero.fr] MISC vladz.devzero.fr Exploit, Third Party Advisory
CVE-2012-1093 MISC security-tracker.debian.org Vendor Advisory
[mina-dev] 20210225 [jira] [Created] (FTPSERVER-500) Security vulnerability in common/lib/log4j-1.2.17.jar lists.apache.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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