CVE catalog

CVE-2014-1638

localepurge: CVE-2014-1638

[CVE catalog]

Severity
Medium
Published
Source
[NVD] · [CVE record]
EPSS
0.36% · Oct 25, 2026

(1) debian/postrm and (2) debian/localepurge.config in localepurge before 0.7.3.2 use tempfile to create a safe temporary file but appends a suffix to the original filename and writes to this new filename, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the new filename.

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.

DistributionPackageReleaseVersionStatus
Debianlocalepurgesid0.7.3.11fixed
Debianlocalepurgeforky0.7.3.11fixed
Debianlocalepurgetrixie0.7.3.11fixed
Debianlocalepurgebookworm0.7.3.10fixed

Fixed-version evidence

DistributionPackageTypeReleaseFixed versionUrgencyOriginBugs
Debianlocalepurgesourcesid0.7.3.2not yet assignedNot reported[736359]
Debianlocalepurgesourceforky0.7.3.2not yet assignedNot reported[736359]
Debianlocalepurgesourcetrixie0.7.3.2not yet assignedNot reported[736359]
Debianlocalepurgesourcebookworm0.7.3.2not yet assignedNot reported[736359]

[Debian bug #736359]

OpenFactory catalog packages

[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]

  • [localepurge]Fixed
    Details (2)

    • 0.7.3.10 · all · bookworm

      Fixed · Fixed: 0.7.3.2

      dsa · localepurge · debian · bookworm; dsa · localepurge · debian · 12

    • 0.7.3.10 · all · bookworm

      Fixed · Fixed: 0.7.3.2

      dsa · localepurge · debian · bookworm; dsa · localepurge · debian · 12

[Debian 13 (Trixie)]

  • [localepurge]Fixed
    Details (2)

    • 0.7.3.11 · all · trixie

      Fixed · Fixed: 0.7.3.2

      dsa · localepurge · debian · 13

    • 0.7.3.11 · all · trixie

      Fixed · Fixed: 0.7.3.2

      dsa · localepurge · debian · 13

Observed:

References

[Debian Security Tracker] · [FIRST EPSS] · [OSV Package Vulnerability Database]