CVE-2002-1193

tkmail before 4.0beta9-8.1 allows local users to create or overwrite files as users via a symlink attack on temporary files...

CVE-2004-0115

VirtualPCServices in Microsoft Virtual PC for Mac 6.0 through 6.1 allows local attackers to truncate and overwrite arbitrary files, and execute arbitrary code, via a symlink attack on the VPCServicesLog temporary file...

CVE-2003-0021

The "screen dump" feature in Eterm 0.9.1 and earlier allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a certain character escape sequence when it is echoed to a user's terminal, e.g. when the user views a file containing the malicious sequence...

CVE-2004-0256

CVE-2004-0256 affects GNU libtool and concerns versions prior to 1.5.2. During compilation, libtool directories created under /tmp can be tricked by a symlink, allowing a local user to overwrite arbitrary files. The documented impact is a local, user-level vulnerability with no remote access requ...

CVE-2001-1066

The CVE-2001-1066 issue affects the Netscape 6.0.1 installation script on Solaris (and related versions) where the installer creates a temporary, predictably named file in a world-writable /tmp directory without proper existence/ownership checks. This enables a local attacker to perform a symlink...

CVE-2001-1267

Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU tar 1.13.19 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via a tar file whose filenames contain a .. dot dot...

CVE-2004-0108

The isag utility, which processes sysstat data, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files, a different vulnerability than CAN-2004-0107...

CVE-1999-1486

sadc in IBM AIX 4.1 through 4.3, when called from programs such as timex that are setgid adm, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack...

CVE-2002-1138

Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 and 2000, including Microsoft Data Engine MSDE 1.0 and Microsoft Desktop Engine MSDE 2000, writes output files for scheduled jobs under its own privileges instead of the entity that launched it, which allows attackers to overwrite system files, aka "Flaw in Output File...

CVE-2001-1066

ns6install installation script for Netscape 6.01 on Solaris, and other versions including 6.2.1 beta, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack...

CVE-2002-0662

scrollkeeper-get-cl in ScrollKeeper 0.3 to 0.3.11 allows local users to create and overwrite files via a symlink attack on the scrollkeeper-tempfile.x temporary files...

CVE-2003-0022

Removed by vendor...

CVE-2003-0021

The "screen dump" feature in Eterm 0.9.1 and earlier allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a certain character escape sequence when it is echoed to a user's terminal, e.g. when the user views a file containing the malicious sequence...

CVE-2003-0021

The CVE-2003-0021 issue affects Eterm 0.9.1 and earlier, where the terminal’s screen-dump feature can be abused by a crafted escape sequence to overwrite arbitrary files when echoed to a user’s terminal (e.g., during viewing a file containing the sequence). The root cause is a vulnerability in ho...

MySQL: Insecure temporary file creation in mysqlhotcopy

Background MySQL is a popular open-source multi-threaded, multi-user SQL database server. Description Jeroen van Wolffelaar discovered that the MySQL database hot copy utility mysqlhotcopy.sh, when using the scp method, uses temporary files with predictable names. A malicious local user with writ...

CVE-2002-1502: Undefined Security Weakness

Symbolic link vulnerability in xbreaky before 0.5.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink from the user's .breakyhighscores file to the target file...

CVE-2001-1267: Undefined Security Weakness

Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU tar 1.13.19 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via a tar file whose filenames contain a .. dot dot...

CVE-2003-0021: Undefined Security Weakness

The "screen dump" feature in Eterm 0.9.1 and earlier allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a certain character escape sequence when it is echoed to a user's terminal, e.g. when the user views a file containing the malicious sequence...

CVE-2003-0022: Undefined Security Weakness

The "screen dump" feature in rxvt 2.7.8 allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a certain character escape sequence when it is echoed to a user's terminal, e.g. when the user views a file containing the malicious sequence...

CVE-2003-0120: Undefined Security Weakness

adb2mhc in the mhc-utils package before 0.25+20010625-7.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a default temporary directory with a predictable name...