On desktop, Ubuntu UI Toolkit's StateSaver would serialise data on tmp/ files which an attacker could use to expose potentially sensitive data. StateSaver would also open files without the O_EXCL flag. An attacker could exploit this to launch a symlink attack, though this is partially mitigated by symlink and hardlink restrictions in Ubuntu. Fixed in 1.1.1188+14.10.20140813.4-0ubuntu1.
References
Link Resource
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-sdk-team/ubuntu-ui-toolkit/staging/revision/1182 Patch Third Party Advisory
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1348241 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: canonical

Published: 2014-07-24T00:00:00

Updated: 2020-09-10T23:55:14

Reserved: 2014-01-13T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2014-1420

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-09-11T00:15:11.733

Modified: 2020-09-16T15:10:18.080


Link: CVE-2014-1420

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