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{
    "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/packages/1083017?format=api",
    "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/localepurge@0.6.2%2Bnmu1%2Bsqueeze1",
    "type": "deb",
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    "name": "localepurge",
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    "subpath": "",
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            "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/vulnerabilities/203287?format=api",
            "vulnerability_id": "VCID-uzxg-n1zn-gqf1",
            "summary": "(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.",
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                    "reference_url": "https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2014-1638",
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                    "reference_type": "",
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                },
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                    "reference_url": "https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736359",
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}