CVE-2013-1444 Information

Description

A certain Debian patch for txt2man 1.5.5 as used in txt2man 1.5.5-2 1.5.5-4 and others allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/2222.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=724614 http://osvdb.org/97769 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/660 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1979-1