Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jan 28, 2014· Updated Apr 29, 2026
CVE-2014-1639
CVE-2014-1639
Description
syncevo/installcheck-local.sh in syncevolution before 1.3.99.7 uses mktemp to create a safe temporary file but appends a suffix to the original filename and writes to this new filename, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the new filename.
Affected products
1Patches
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