Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Patrick J Cherry discovered that txt2man contained leftover debugging code that incorrectly created a temporary file. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite arbitrary files. In the default Ubuntu installation, this should be prevented by the Yama link restrictions.
Affected
txt2man on Ubuntu 13.04 ,
Ubuntu 12.10 ,
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2013-1444 -
CVSS Base Score: 3.3
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
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