iDEFENSE Security Advisory 12.15.04: Computer Associates eTrust EZ Antivirus Insecure File Permission Vulnerability

Computer Associates eTrust EZ Antivirus Insecure File Permission Vulnerability iDEFENSE Security Advisory 12.15.04 http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=164 December 15, 2004 I. BACKGROUND Computer Associates eTrust EZ Antivirus is antivirus protection software for home and business...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : postgresql (MDKSA-2004:149)

The Trustix development team found insecure temporary file creation problems in a script included in the postgresql package. This could allow an attacker to trick a user into overwriting arbitrary files he has access to. The updated packages have been patched to prevent this problem. %NASLMINLEVE...

GLSA-200412-05 : mirrorselect: Insecure temporary file creation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200412-05 mirrorselect: Insecure temporary file creation Ervin Nemeth discovered that mirrorselect creates temporary files in world-writable directories with predictable names. Impact : A local attacker could create symbolic links...

Debian DSA-603-1 : openssl - insecure temporary file

Trustix developers discovered insecure temporary file creation in a supplemental script derchop of the openssl package which may allow local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin...

Cscope 13.0/15.x - Insecure Temporary File Creation (2)

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11697/info Cscope creates temporary files in an insecure way. A design error causes the application to fail to verify the presence of a file before writing to it. During execution, the utility reportedly creates temporary files in the system's temporar...

Debian DSA-577-1 : postgresql - insecure temporary file

Trustix Security Engineers identified insecure temporary file creation in a script included in the postgresql suite, an object-relational SQL database. This could lead an attacker to trick a user to overwrite arbitrary files he has write access to. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security,...

[SA12973] OpenSSL "der_chop" Script Insecure Temporary File Creation

TITLE: OpenSSL "derchop" Script Insecure Temporary File Creation SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA12973 VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/12973/ CRITICAL: Less critical IMPACT: Privilege escalation WHERE: Local system SOFTWARE: OpenSSL 0.9.x http://secunia.com/product/253/ DESCRIPTION: A...

CVE-2004-0755

The FileStore capability in CGI::Session for Ruby before 1.8.1, and possibly PStore, creates files with insecure permissions, which can allow local users to steal session information and hijack sessions...

ghostscript -- insecure temporary file creation vulnerability

Ghostscript is affected by an insecure temporary file creation vulnerability. This issue is likely due to a design error that causes the application to fail to verify the existence of a file before writing to it. An attacker may leverage this issue to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges...

RHEL 2.1 / 3 : ruby (RHSA-2004:441)

An updated ruby package that fixes insecure file permissions for CGI session files is now available. Ruby is an interpreted scripting language for object-oriented programming. Andres Salomon reported an insecure file permissions flaw in the CGI session management of Ruby. FileStore created world...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: ruby security update

An updated ruby package that fixes insecure file permissions for CGI session files is now available. Ruby is an interpreted scripting language for object-oriented programming. Andres Salomon reported an insecure file permissions flaw in the CGI session management of Ruby. FileStore created world...

Debian DSA-160-1 : scrollkeeper - insecure temporary file creation

Spybreak discovered a problem in scrollkeeper, a free electronic cataloging system for documentation. The scrollkeeper-get-cl program creates temporary files in an insecure manner in /tmp using guessable filenames. Since scrollkeeper is called automatically when a user logs into a Gnome session, ...

Debian DSA-540-1 : mysql - insecure file creation

Jeroen van Wolffelaar discovered an insecure temporary file vulnerability in the mysqlhotcopy script when using the scp method which is part of the mysql-server package. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from...

Debian DSA-172-1 : tkmail - insecure temporary files

It has been discovered that tkmail creates temporary files insecurely. Exploiting this an attacker with local access can easily create and overwrite files as another user. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted fr...

Debian DSA-537-1 : ruby - insecure file permissions

Andres Salomon noticed a problem in the CGI session management of Ruby, an object-oriented scripting language. CGI::Session's FileStore and presumably PStore, but not in Debian woody implementations store session information insecurely. They simply create files, ignoring permission issues. This c...

Debian DSA-341-1 : liece - insecure temporary file

liece, an IRC client for Emacs, does not take appropriate security precautions when creating temporary files. This bug could potentially be exploited to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running Emacs and liece, potentially with contents supplied by the attacker...

CVE-2004-0906

The XPInstall installer in Mozilla Firefox before the Preview Release, Mozilla before 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.8 sets insecure permissions for certain installed files within xpi packages, which could allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files or execute arbitrary code...

rsynxOSX.txt

Product: RsyncX is a frontend for rsync running on OS X, with additional features such as crontab editing. http://www.macosxlabs.org/rsyncx/rsyncx.html Problems: 1 RsyncX is installed setuid root and setgid wheel. Upon execution, the program drops root privileges only via seteuidgetuid . However ...

MacOSXLabs RsyncX 2.1 - Insecure Temporary File Creation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11212/info RsyncX is reported to contain an insecure temporary file creation vulnerability. The result of this is that temporary files created by the application may use predictable filenames. A local attacker may exploit this vulnerability to execute...

serverview 3.0 - insecure file permissions

date: 06.09.2004 author: l0om - l0om at excluded d0t org - www.excluded.org product: serverview problem: insecure file permissions version: 3.0??? serverview is a server management product from fujitsu siemens which is shipped with every PRIMERGY server. it is based on snmp an let you view and se...