CVE-2004-0564

Roaring Penguin pppoe rp-ppoe, if installed or configured to run setuid root contrary to its design, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files. NOTE: the developer has publicly disputed the claim that this is a vulnerability because pppoe "is NOT designed to run setuid-root." Therefore this...

CVE-2004-0770

CVE-2004-0770 affects romload.c in DGen Emulator 1.23 and earlier. The vulnerability arises during decompression of ROM files compressed with gzip or bzip, where a symlink attack on temporary files enables a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files. Impact is local file overwrite; no exploit d...

CVE-2004-0967

The 1 pj-gs.sh, 2 ps2epsi, 3 pv.sh, and 4 sysvlp.sh scripts in the ESP Ghostscript espgs package in Trustix Secure Linux 1.5 through 2.1, and other operating systems, allow local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack on temporary files...

CVE-2004-0559

The maketemp.pl script in Usermin 1.070 and 1.080 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files at install time via a symlink attack on the /tmp/.usermin directory...

Debian DSA-483-1 : mysql - insecure temporary file creation

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in mysql, a common database system. Two scripts contained in the package don't create temporary files in a secure fashion. This could allow a local attacker to overwrite files with the privileges of the user invoking the MySQL server, which is often the ro...

Debian DSA-056-1 : man-db - local file overwrite

Ethan Benson found a bug in man-db packages as distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2. man-db includes a mandb tool which is used to build an index of the manual pages installed on a system. When the -u or -c option were given on the command-line to tell it to write its database to a different...

Debian DSA-232-1 : cupsys - several vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the Common Unix Printing System CUPS. Several of these issues represent the potential for a remote compromise or denial of service. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CAN-2002-1383: Multiple integer...

Webmin, Usermin: Multiple vulnerabilities in Usermin

Background Webmin and Usermin are web-based system administration consoles. Webmin allows an administrator to easily configure servers and other features. Usermin allows users to configure their own accounts, execute commands, and read e-mail. The Usermin functionality, including webmail, is also...

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...

NOD32 < 2.51.26 Antivirus Local File Overwrite

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Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : samba (MDKSA-2001:040-1)

A vulnerability found by Marcus Meissner exists in Samba where it was not creating temporary files safely which could allow local users to overwrite files that they may not have access to. This happens when a remote user queried a printer queue and samba would create a temporary file in which the...

Epic Games Unreal Tournament Engine 3 - UMOD Manifest.INI Arbitrary File Overwrite

Epic Games Unreal Tournament Engine 3 - UMOD Manifest.INI Arbitrary File Overwrite // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10196/info Reportedly the Unreal Tournament Engine is affected by a local file overwrite vulnerability due to the UMOD manifest.ini file. This issue is due to an input...

CVE-2004-0279

AIM Sniff (aimSniff.pl) 0.9b is affected. A local user can overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/AS.log, indicating a local file overwrite vulnerability in this tool. The provided connected documents confirm the affected component and the root cause (symlink leading to /tmp/AS.lo...

CVE-2004-0283

CVE-2004-0283 affects Mailmgr 1.2.3, where local users can overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack against /tmp/mailmgr.unsort, /tmp/mailmgr.tmp, or /tmp/mailmgr.sort. The root cause is improper handling of temporary files that allows a local attacker to leverage symlinks to redirect file ...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: sysstat security update

Updated sysstat packages that fix various bugs and security issues are now available. Sysstat is a tool for gathering system statistics. Isag is a utility for graphically displaying these statistics. A bug was found in the Red Hat sysstat package post and trigger scripts, which used insecure...

CVE-2003-0924

netpbm 9.25 and earlier does not properly create temporary files, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files...

CVE-2003-0885

Xscreensaver 4.14 contains certain debugging code that should have been omitted, which causes Xscreensaver to create temporary files insecurely in the 1 apple2, 2 xanalogtv, and 3 pong screensavers, and allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack...

CVE-2003-1294

Xscreensaver before 4.15 creates temporary files insecurely in 1 driver/passwd-kerberos.c, 2 driver/xscreensaver-getimage-video, 3 driver/xscreensaver.kss.in, and the 4 vidwhacker and 5 webcollage screensavers, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack...

CVE-2003-0872

Certain scripts in OpenServer before 5.0.6 allow local users to overwrite files and conduct other unauthorized activities via a symlink attack on temporary files...

CVE-2003-0844

modgzip 1.3.26.1a and earlier, and possibly later official versions, when running in debug mode without the Apache log, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via 1 a symlink attack on predictable temporary filenames on Unix systems, or 2 an NTFS hard link on Windows systems when the...