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mgetty creates temporary files insecurely
Overview mgetty, a replacement for getty designed to support modem and fax use, creates files of a predictable name in a world-writable directory without checking for the prior existence or ownership of the file. Using a symbolic link attack, an intruder might cause the overwrite of arbitrary fil...
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-2001-0642
Directory traversal vulnerability in IncrediMail version 1400185 and earlier allows local users to overwrite files on the local hard drive by appending .. dot dot sequences to filenames listed in the content.ini file...
CVE-2001-0095
Catman in Solaris 2.7/2.8 creates insecure temporary files with predictable names in world-writable /tmp, enabling local users to perform a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files. The root cause is predictable temp-file naming and symlink handling when run as root. Impact is local privilege ...
CVE-2001-0095
catman in Solaris 2.7 and 2.8 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the smanPID temporary file...
CVE-2001-0474
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...
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-1999-1495
CVE-1999-1495 describes a local vulnerability in xtvscreen for SuSE Linux 6.0 where a symlink attack on the file “pic000.pnm” lets a local user overwrite arbitrary files. The underlying issue is a symlink-based file-overwrite path within xtvscreen. Documented impact indicates no confidentiality o...
CVE-1999-1352
CVE-1999-1352 describes a local privilege/vulnerability in Linux 2.2 where mknod follows symbolic links, potentially allowing a local user to overwrite files or gain privileges. The connected sources reiterate this behavior but do not provide concrete exploitation details, specific vulnerable ver...
CVE-1999-1013
named-xfer in AIX 4.1.5 and 4.2.1 allows members of the system group to overwrite system files to gain root access via the -f parameter and a malformed zone file...
CVE-1999-1495
xtvscreen in SuSE Linux 6.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the pic000.pnm file...
CVE-1999-1388
The CVE-1999-1388 entry concerns SunOS 4.1.x, where the passwd utility is vulnerable to a local symlink attack via the -F command line argument. This allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files, due to the underlying symlink race condition in passwd. The affected component is the passwd progr...
CVE-1999-1013
CVE-1999-1013 affects AIX 4.1.5 and 4.2.1 via the named-xfer component. A flaw allows members of the system group to overwrite system files and gain root access by abusing the -f parameter together with a malformed zone file. Root cause is improper validation of file operations and zone-file pars...
CVE-1999-1299
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-1999-1038
Tiger 2.2.3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on various temporary files in Tiger's default working directory, as defined by the WORKDIR variable...
CVE-1999-1227
Ethereal allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the packet capture file...
CVE-1999-1227
CVE-1999-1227 concerns Ethereal and a local symlink-attack that allows overwriting arbitrary files via the packet capture file. Documentation consistently states the flaw is a local-privilege issue due to a symlink race, enabling complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact for af...
CVE-1999-1517
CVE-1999-1517 concerns runtar in the Amanda backup system on UNIX-like OSes. The vulnerable component runs tar with root privileges, enabling a local attacker to overwrite or read arbitrary files by specifying target files to runtar. The CVSS-based notes indicate local access, no authentication, ...