CVE-2014-1638: Debian Localepurge

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

(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.

Affected products

• Debian Localepurge: up to and including 0.7.3.1

Published 2014-01-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.