CVE-2014-2524 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2014-2524?

CVE-2014-2524 is a low-severity path traversal vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 20 Aug 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The _rl_tropen function in util.c in GNU readline before 6.3 patch 3 allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /var/tmp/rltrace.[PID] file.

Weakness: CWE-59

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-2524?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Gnu Readline, Mageia Mageia, Opensuse Opensuse.

How do I fix CVE-2014-2524?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2014-2524 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-2524 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-hq65-wq6g-7mcc, MGASA-2014-0319, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-2524, openSUSE-SU-2024:10111-1.