CVE-2011-3616: Conky

Medium severity, CVSS 6.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The getSkillname function in the eve module in Conky 1.8.1 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/.cesf.

Affected products

• Conky Conky: up to and including 1.8.1; version 1.1 only; version 1.2 only; version 1.3.0 only; version 1.3.1 only; version 1.3.2 only; …

Published 2011-11-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.