CVE-2012-5660 Information

Description

abrt-action-install-debuginfo in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) 2.0.9 and earlier allows local users to set world-writable permissions for arbitrary files and possibly gain privileges via a symlink attack on \the directories used to store information about crashes.\

Reference

http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/libreport.git/commit/?id=3bbf961b1884dd32654dd39b360dd78ef294b10a http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0215.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=887866