Matlab /tmp usage

INTRODUCTION MATLAB is "The Language of Technical Computing" http://www.mathworks.com/ PROBLEM As installed on UNIX machines, matlab uses shell scripts to launch; these scripts use files in /tmp in an unsafe way. DETAILS The matlab script uses /tmp/$$a and may clobber it, allowing an attacker to...

CVE-2002-0141

Maelstrom GPL 3.0.1 is affected by CVE-2002-0141: a local user can overwrite arbitrary files of other Maelstrom users via a symlink attack on the /tmp/f file. Root cause is a symlink race condition. The provided documents describe the vulnerability but do not include a remediation or patched vers...

cvs recompiled against updated zlib + /tmp fix

New cvs packages are available to fix security problems. Here's the information from the Slackware 8.0 ChangeLog: ---------------------------- Mon Mar 11 17:54:12 PST 2002 patches/packages/cvs.tgz: Patched to link to the shared zlib on the system instead of statically linking to the included zlib...

CVE-2001-0625: Undefined Security Weakness

ftpdownload in Computer Associates InoculateIT 6.0 allows a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/ftpdownload.log...

CVE-1999-1386: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

Perl 5.00404 and earlier follows symbolic links when running with the -e option, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/perl-eaXXXXX file...

CVE-2001-1012

CVE-2001-1012 affects the screen utility prior to version 3.9.10. The issue is described as a multi-attach error that allows local users to gain root privileges when there is a subdirectory under /tmp/screens/. The connected sources confirm the affected component and the local-privilege escalatio...

Некорректная работа с идентификаторами сеансов в PHP4 (session spoofing)

Идентификаторы сеансов хранятся в директории /tmp...

Mozilla personal security manager /tmp issues

Playing with /tmp a bit this morning I ran into the following issue in mozilla... with mozilla open root@linuxppc root fuser -n file /tmp/.nsmc-0-lock /tmp/.nsmc-0-lock: 3220 3223 3224 3226 3227 3228 3229 root@linuxppc root ps -ef | grep 3220 root 3220 1 0 12:42 ? 00:00:00 ./psm sh-2.05$ id...

CVE-1999-1091

UNIX news readers tin and rtin create the /tmp/.tinlog file with insecure permissions and follow symlinks, which allows attackers to modify the permissions of files writable by the user via a symlink attack...

CVE-1999-1345: Undefined Security Weakness

AutoFTP.pl script in AutoFTP 0.2 uses the /tmp/ftptmp as a shared directory with insecure permissions, which allows local users to 1 send arbitrary files to the remote server by placing them in the directory, and 2 view files that are being transferred...

rcs2log

I have been sitting on this one for half a year. Time to disclose it. rcs2log uses files in /tmp insecurely. This was reported to the Emacs maintainers an aeon or two ago. Current preleases have a fix. And have had it for at least half a year. NOTE NOTE NOTE: there seem to be quite a few sources...

ml85p - driver for Samsung ML-85G and /tmp

ml85p - driver for Samsung ML-85G GDI printers seems to use /tmp unsecurely. it seems to use the time function to determine the /tmp files name. root@linux exp strings /usr/bin/ml85p | grep tmp /tmp/ml85gd 401070dd iopl0x3 = 0 400cf2bd timeNULL = 994462668 40100cbf brk0 = 0x8064544 40100cbf...

RH 7.0 Crontab exploit - apparently fixed

/ Crontab tmp file race condition http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/showbug.cgi?id=37771 Apparently this is fixed. Wonder why it still works. Local exploit Quick and dirty exploit for crontab insecure tmp files Redhat 7.0 - kept up2date with up2date Checked Tue Jun 26 00:15:32 NZST 2001...

FreeBSD-SA-01:36.samba

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-01:36 Security Advisory FreeBSD, Inc. Topic: samba ports contain locally exploitable /tmp races Category: ports Module: samba Announced: 2001-04-23 Credits: Marcus Meissner...

Samba 2.0.x - Insecure TMP File Symbolic Link

Samba 2.0.x - Insecure TMP File Symbolic Link // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2617/info Samba is a flexible file sharing packaged maintained by the Samba development group. It provides interoperatability between UNIX and Microsoft Windows systems, permitting the sharing of files and...

SuSE 6.x7.0 - MkDir Error Handling rctab Race Condition (1)

SuSE 6.x7.0 - MkDir Error Handling rctab Race Condition 1 source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2207/info rctab is the Run Control Tab script included with the SuSE distribution of the Linux Operating System. SuSE is a freely available, Open Source Operating system maintained by SuSE...

SuSE 6.x/7.0 - MkDir Error Handling rctab Race Condition (1)

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2207/info rctab is the Run Control Tab script included with the SuSE distribution of the Linux Operating System. SuSE is a freely available, Open Source Operating system maintained by SuSE Incorporated. A race condition in the rctab script could allow an...

SuSE 6.x/7.0 - MkDir Error Handling rctab Race Condition (2)

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2207/info rctab is the Run Control Tab script included with the SuSE distribution of the Linux Operating System. SuSE is a freely available, Open Source Operating system maintained by SuSE Incorporated. A race condition in the rctab script could allow an...

/bin/ksh creates insecure tmp files

Recently I reported that, similarly to the recently discussed tcsh vulnerability, the Bourne shell /bin/sh creates temporary files in an insecure way: http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&[email protected] At the time I also tested the Korn...

SunOS 5.7 Catman - Local Insecure tmp Symlink Clobber

!/usr/local/bin/perl -w The problem is catman creates files in /tmp insecurly. They are based on the PID of the catman process, catman will happily clobber any files that are symlinked to that file. The idea of this script is to watch the process list for the catman process, get the pid and Creat...