Novell openSUSE 12.3/13.1 Local Privilege Escalation

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Novell openSUSE 12.3/13.1. It has been classified as problematic. This impacts an unknown function. Performing a manipulation results in Local Privilege Escalation. This vulnerability was named CVE-2014-1839. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Novell openSUSE 12.3/13.1 (Operating System). This affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The Execute class in shellutils in logilab-commons before 0.61.0 uses tempfile.mktemp, which allows local users to have an unspecified impact by pre-creating the temporary file.

The weakness was presented 03/11/2014 by Jakub Wilk (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at bugs.debian.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2014-1839 since 02/02/2014. Attacking locally is a requirement. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 73107 (Fedora 20 : pylint-1.1.0-1.fc20 / python-astroid-1.0.1-2.fc20 / python-logilab-common-0.61.0-1.fc20 (2014-3300)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Fedora Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 122006 (Solaris 11.1 Support Repository Update (SRU) 18.5.0 Missing).

Upgrading to version 13.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (92084), Tenable (73107), SecurityFocus (BID 65899†), Secunia (SA57209†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-43808†). See VDB-7237, VDB-7238, VDB-9747 and VDB-34383 for similar entries. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Class: Local Privilege Escalation
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Physical: Partially
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Nessus ID: 73107
Nessus Name: Fedora 20 : pylint-1.1.0-1.fc20 / python-astroid-1.0.1-2.fc20 / python-logilab-common-0.61.0-1.fc20 (2014-3300)
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OpenVAS ID: 867614
OpenVAS Name: Fedora Update for pylint FEDORA-2014-3300
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: openSUSE 13.1

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01/29/2014 🔍
01/30/2014 +1 days 🔍
02/02/2014 +3 days 🔍
03/11/2014 +37 days 🔍
03/11/2014 +0 days 🔍
03/30/2014 +19 days 🔍
03/24/2015 +359 days 🔍
05/07/2026 +4062 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: novell.com

Advisory: 20756
Researcher: Jakub Wilk
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2014-1839 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2014-1839
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-66603
X-Force: 92084
SecurityFocus: 65899 - Python logilab-common Package CVE-2014-1839 Insecure File Creation Vulnerability
Secunia: 57209
Vulnerability Center: 43808 - logilab-commons Before 0.61.0 Local Unspecified Vulnerability via Pre-creating the Temporary File, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/24/2015 15:54
Updated: 05/07/2026 18:00
Changes: 03/24/2015 15:54 (68), 05/24/2017 10:47 (5), 02/03/2022 13:33 (3), 02/03/2022 13:38 (1), 05/07/2026 18:00 (18)
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