Cscope 13.015.x - Insecure Temporary File Creation (2)

Cscope 13.015.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...

Davfs2, lvm-user: Insecure tempfile handling

Background Davfs2 is a file system driver that allows you to mount a WebDAV server as a local disk drive. lvm-user is a package providing userland utilities for LVM Logical Volume Management 1.x features. Description Florian Schilhabel from the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team found that Davfs2...

gettext: Insecure temporary file handling

Background gettext is a set of utilities for the GNU Translation Project which provides a set of tools and documentation to help produce multi-lingual messages in programs. Description gettext insecurely creates temporary files in world-writeable directories with predictable names. Impact A local...

RHEL 2.1 / 3 : kdelibs, kdebase (RHSA-2004:412)

Updated kdelib and kdebase packages that resolve multiple security issues are now available. The kdelibs packages include libraries for the K Desktop Environment. The kdebase packages include core applications for the K Desktop Environment. Andrew Tuitt reported that versions of KDE up to and...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kdelibs, kdebase security update

Updated kdelib and kdebase packages that resolve multiple security issues are now available. The kdelibs packages include libraries for the K Desktop Environment. The kdebase packages include core applications for the K Desktop Environment. Andrew Tuitt reported that versions of KDE up to and...

Debian DSA-202-1 : im - insecure temporary files

Tatsuya Kinoshita discovered that IM, which contains interface commands and Perl libraries for E-mail and NetNews, creates temporary files insecurely. - The impwagent program creates a temporary directory in an insecure manner in /tmp using predictable directory names without checking the return...

CVE-2004-0752: Undefined Security Weakness

OpenOffice OOo 1.1.2 creates predictable directory names with insecure permissions during startup, which may allow local users to read or list files of other users...

Fedora Core 2 : kdelibs-3.2.2-8.FC2 (2004-291)

Andrew Tuitt reported that versions of KDE up to and including 3.2.3 create temporary directories with predictable names. A local attacker could prevent KDE applications from functioning correctly, or overwrite files owned by other users by creating malicious symlinks. The Common Vulnerabilities...

CVE-2002-1538

CVE-2002-1538 affects Acuma Acusend 4 and potentially earlier versions. The issue enables remote authenticated users to read other users’ reports by inferring the full, easily predictable URL. The underlying impact is partial confidentiality exposure of reports. The provided documents do not spec...

CVE-2002-1463

Symantec Raptor Firewall 6.5 and 6.5.3, Enterprise Firewall 6.5.2 and 7.0, VelociRaptor Models 500/700/1000 and 1100/1200/1300, and Gateway Security 5110/5200/5300 generate easily predictable initial sequence numbers ISN, which allows remote attackers to spoof connections...

CVE-2003-0094

CVE-2003-0094 affects Mandrake Linux 8.2/9.0 util-linux mcookie. The patch changed the entropy source from /dev/random to /dev/urandom, making mcookie output more predictable and potentially aiding certain attacks. The Nessus advisory notes the patch was removed in these updates, restoring a bett...

CVE-2003-0094: Undefined Security Weakness

A patch for mcookie in the util-linux package for Mandrake Linux 8.2 and 9.0 uses /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random, which causes mcookie to use an entropy source that is more predictable than expected, which may make it easier for certain types of attacks to succeed...

CVE-2002-1463: Undefined Security Weakness

Symantec Raptor Firewall 6.5 and 6.5.3, Enterprise Firewall 6.5.2 and 7.0, VelociRaptor Models 500/700/1000 and 1100/1200/1300, and Gateway Security 5110/5200/5300 generate easily predictable initial sequence numbers ISN, which allows remote attackers to spoof connections...

CVE-2002-1538: Undefined Security Weakness

Acuma Acusend 4, and possibly earlier versions, allows remote authenticated users to read the reports of other users by inferring the full URL, whose name is easily predictable...

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...

IMWheel 1.0 - Predictable Temporary File Creation

IMWheel 1.0 - Predictable Temporary File Creation source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11008/info IMWheel is reported prone to a predictable temporary file creation vulnerability. This issue is a race condition error and may allow a local attacker to carry out denial of service attacks again...

IMWheel 1.0 - Predictable Temporary File Creation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11008/info IMWheel is reported prone to a predictable temporary file creation vulnerability. This issue is a race condition error and may allow a local attacker to carry out denial of service attacks against other users and possibly gain elevated...

CVE-2004-0502

Outlook 2003, when replying to an e-mail message, stores certain files in a predictable location for the "src" of an img tag of the original message, which allows remote attackers to bypass zone restrictions and exploit other issues that rely on predictable locations, as demonstrated using a shel...

mysql -- mysqlhotcopy insecure temporary file creation

According to Christian Hammers: mysqlhotcopy created temporary files in /tmp which had predictable filenames and such could be used for a tempfile run attack. Jeroen van Wolffelaar is credited with discovering the issue...

Multiple browsers security dialogs race conditions

By forcing user to type predictable characters, key sequences or mouse clicks it's possible to conduct situation user event will be received by shortly appeared security dialog for example "Save file" dialog can apper then user is about to press Y key...