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CVE-2014-1876

Public on 2014-02-10
Modified on 2014-09-18
Description

The unpacker::redirect_stdio function in unpack.cpp in unpack200 in OpenJDK 6, 7, and 8; Oracle Java SE 5.0u61, 6u71, 7u51, and 8; JRockit R27.8.1 and R28.3.1; and Java SE Embedded 7u51 does not securely create temporary files when a log file cannot be opened, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/unpack.log.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
1.9
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.6.0-openjdk 2014-04-17 23:53 ALAS-2014-326
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.7.0-openjdk 2014-04-17 23:55 ALAS-2014-327

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 1.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 4.4 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P