openvas-scanner before 2011-09-11 creates a temporary file insecurely when generating OVAL system characteristics document with the ovaldi integrated tool enabled. A local attacker could use this flaw to conduct symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files on the system.
[
{
"product": "openvas-scanner",
"vendor": "openvas-scanner",
"versions": [
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "through 2011-09-11"
}
]
}
]