The pathname canonicalization functionality in io/filesystem/filesystem.cc in Widelands before 15.1 expands leading ~ (tilde) characters to home-directory pathnames but does not restrict use of these characters in strings received from the network, which might allow remote attackers to conduct absolute path traversal attacks and overwrite arbitrary files via a ~ in a pathname that is used for a file transfer in an Internet game, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1932.
References
Link Resource
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~widelands-dev/widelands/build-15/revision/5021 Patch Release Notes Third Party Advisory
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=617960 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71626 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2011-12-05T11:00:00

Updated: 2017-08-28T12:57:01

Reserved: 2011-12-04T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2011-4675

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2011-12-05T11:55:07.867

Modified: 2021-06-25T14:19:14.030


Link: CVE-2011-4675

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