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HIGH

libqb: Insecure treatment of IPC (temporary) files

Published Jun 7, 2019

Description

libqb before 1.0.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack, because it uses predictable filenames (under /dev/shm and /tmp) without O_EXCL.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (2)

References (13)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jun 7, 2019
Updated Aug 4, 2024
Reserved Jun 7, 2019
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Apr 3, 2019