pyxdg Arbitrary File Overwrite via Race Condition

Race condition in the xdg.BaseDirectory.getruntimedir function in pyxdg 0.25 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by pre-creating /tmp/pyxdg-runtime-dir-fallback-victim to point to a victim-owned location, then replacing it with a symlink to an attacker-controlled location once the...

GHSA-7372-Q459-JXHR pyxdg Arbitrary File Overwrite via Race Condition

Race condition in the xdg.BaseDirectory.getruntimedir function in pyxdg 0.25 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by pre-creating /tmp/pyxdg-runtime-dir-fallback-victim to point to a victim-owned location, then replacing it with a symlink to an attacker-controlled location once the...

Fedora 20 : pyxdg-0.25-5.fc20 (2014-16357)

Fix CVE-2014-1624 pyxdg: TOCTOU race condition in getruntimedir when strict=False Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without...