Sun Solaris catman creates temporary files insecurely

Overview catman, the unix manual display utility, creates insecure temporary files with predictable names in a world-writable directory. Since catman executes with system administration privileges, a symbolic link attack could overwrite arbitrary files. Description There is a vulnerability in...

CVE-2001-0474: Undefined Security Weakness

Utah-glx in Mesa before 3.3-14 on Mandrake Linux 7.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/glxmemory file...

Samba creates temporary files insecurely

Overview Samba handles temporary files insecurely, allowing arbitrary files to be overwritten and left in a state that would permit later modification. Description Samba is an implementation of the Server Message Block SMB protocol. Some versions of samba handle temporary files in an insecure...

CVE-1999-1299: Undefined Security Weakness

rcp on various Linux systems including Red Hat 4.0 allows a "nobody" user or other user with UID of 65535 to overwrite arbitrary files, since 65535 is interpreted as -1 by chown and other system calls, which causes the calls to fail to modify the ownership of the file...

CVE-1999-1388: Undefined Security Weakness

passwd in SunOS 4.1.x allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack and the -F command line argument...

CVE-1999-1426: Undefined Security Weakness

Solaris Solstice AdminSuite AdminSuite 2.1 follows symbolic links when updating an NIS database, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files...

CVE-1999-1517: Undefined Security Weakness

runtar in the Amanda backup system used in various UNIX operating systems executes tar with root privileges, which allows a user to overwrite or read arbitrary files by providing the target files to runtar...

CVE-1999-1210: Undefined Security Weakness

xterm in Digital UNIX 4.0B with patch kit 5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a core dump file, which is created when xterm is called with a DISPLAY environmental variable set to a display that xterm cannot access...

Sambar Server pagecount CGI Traversal Arbitrary File Overwrite

By default, there is a pagecount script with Sambar Web Server located at http://sambarserver/session/pagecount This counter writes its temporary files in c:\sambardirectory\tmp. It allows to overwrite any files on the filesystem since the 'page' parameter is not checked against '../../' attacks...

CVE-2001-0605

Headlight Software MyGetright prior to 1.0b allows a remote attacker to upload and/or overwrite arbitrary files via a malicious .dld skins-data file which contains long strings of random data...

CVE-2001-1268

Directory traversal vulnerability in Info-ZIP UnZip 5.42 and earlier allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via a .. dot dot in an extracted filename...

CVE-2001-1277

makewhatis in the man package before 1.5i2 allows an attacker in group man to overwrite arbitrary files via a man page whose name contains shell metacharacters...

CVE-2001-0417: Undefined Security Weakness

Kerberos 4 aka krb4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on new ticket files...

ARCservIT 6.616.63 Client - asagent.tmp Arbitrary File Overwrite

ARCservIT 6.616.63 Client - asagent.tmp Arbitrary File Overwrite source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2741/info ARCservIT from Computer Associates contains a vulnerability which may allow malicious local users to overwrite arbitrary files. When it runs for the first time, 'asagent', opens an...

ARCservIT 6.61/6.63 Client - inetd.tmp Arbitrary File Overwrite

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2748/info ARCservIT from Computer Associates contains a vulnerability which may allow malicious local users to corrupt arbitrary files. When it runs with the parameters 'inet add', 'asagent', opens and overwrites it if it exists a file in /tmp called...

ARCservIT 6.61/6.63 Client - asagent.tmp Arbitrary File Overwrite

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2741/info ARCservIT from Computer Associates contains a vulnerability which may allow malicious local users to overwrite arbitrary files. When it runs for the first time, 'asagent', opens and truncates it if it exists a file in /tmp called 'asagent.tmp'...

CVE-2001-0169

When using the LDPRELOAD environmental variable in SUID or SGID applications, glibc does not verify that preloaded libraries in /etc/ld.so.cache are also SUID/SGID, which could allow a local user to overwrite arbitrary files by loading a library from /lib or /usr/lib...

CVE-2001-0120

CVE-2001-0120 relates to the shadow-utils package, specifically the useradd component. The vulnerability arises from insecure temporary file handling: useradd creates temporary files in /etc/default with predictable names. If /etc/default is world-writable, an attacker could perform a symbolic-li...

CVE-2001-0059: Undefined Security Weakness

patchadd in Solaris allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack...

CVE-2001-0169: Undefined Security Weakness

When using the LDPRELOAD environmental variable in SUID or SGID applications, glibc does not verify that preloaded libraries in /etc/ld.so.cache are also SUID/SGID, which could allow a local user to overwrite arbitrary files by loading a library from /lib or /usr/lib...