| Name | CVE-2014-1831 |
| Description | Phusion Passenger before 4.0.37 allows local users to write to certain files and directories via a symlink attack on (1) control_process.pid or a (2) generation-* file. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 736958 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| passenger (PTS) | stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 5.0.30-1+deb9u1 | fixed |
| buster | 5.0.30-1.1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 5.0.30-1.2+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 6.0.17+ds-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 6.0.20+ds-1 | fixed |
| ruby-passenger (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 4.0.53-1+deb8u1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[squeeze] - passenger <no-dsa> (minor issue)