CVE-2014-2524: Fedoraproject Fedora

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

The _rl_tropen function in util.c in GNU readline before 6.3 patch 3 allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /var/tmp/rltrace.[PID] file.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 20 only
• GNU Readline: up to and including 6.3; version 2.1 only; version 2.2 only; version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only; version 4.2 only; …
• Mageia Mageia: version 3.0 only; version 4.0 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 12.3 only; version 13.1 only

Published 2014-08-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.