CVE-2014-4978

MEDIUM

Rawstudio - Local Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The rs_filter_graph function in librawstudio/rs-filter.c in rawstudio might allow local users to truncate arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) /tmp/rs-filter-graph.png or (2) /tmp/rs-filter-graph.

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/16/15
Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=754899
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1120093
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/162109.html
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/rawstudio/rawstudio/commit/9c2cd3c93c05d009a91d84eedbb85873b0cb505d
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68671
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/94633

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0041
EPSS Percentile 32.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-59
Status published
Products (2)
fedoraproject/fedora 22
rawstudio/rawstudio 2.0-1.1
Published Dec 29, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026