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Ubuntu 4.10 : debmake vulnerability (USN-49-1)
Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena noticed that the debstd script from debmake, a deprecated helper package for Debian packaging, created temporary directories in an insecure manner. This could allow a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the...
Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : heartbeat vulnerability (USN-165-1)
Eric Romang discovered that heartbeat created temporary files in an insecure manner. This could allow a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with root privileges as soon as heartbeat is started. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block...
Code injection
The ispellop function in ee on FreeBSD 4.10 to 6.0 uses predictable filenames and does not confirm which file is being written, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack when ee invokes ispell...
CVE-2006-0055
The ispellop function in ee on FreeBSD 4.10 to 6.0 uses predictable filenames and does not confirm which file is being written, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack when ee invokes ispell...
CVE-2006-0055
The ispellop function in ee on FreeBSD 4.10 to 6.0 uses predictable filenames and does not confirm which file is being written, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack when ee invokes ispell...
CVE-2006-0055
The CVE-2006-0055 issue affects the ee editor on FreeBSD 4.10–6.0, where the ispell_op function generates predictable temporary file names and does not verify which file is written. This race condition allows a local user to perform a symlink attack and potentially overwrite arbitrary files durin...
CVE-2006-0055
The ispellop function in ee on FreeBSD 4.10 to 6.0 uses predictable filenames and does not confirm which file is being written, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack when ee invokes ispell...
texindex -- temporary file privilege escalation
Problem description The "sortoffline" function used by texindex1 employs the "maketempname" function, which produces predictable file names and fails to validate that the paths do not exist. Impact These predictable temporary file names are problematic because they allow an attacker to take...
ee -- temporary file privilege escalation
Problem description The ispellop function used by ee1 while executing spell check operations employs an insecure method of temporary file generation. This method produces predictable file names based on the process ID and fails to confirm which path will be over written with the user. It should b...
FreeBSD-SA-06:01.texindex
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-06:01.texindex Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Texindex temporary file privilege escalation Category: contrib Module: texinfo Announced: 2006-01-11...
FreeBSD-SA-06:02.ee
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-06:02.ee Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: ee temporary file privilege escalation Category: core Module: ee Announced: 2006-01-11 Credits: Christian...
CVE-2005-4536
Mail::Audit module in libmail-audit-perl 2.1-5, when logging is enabled without a default log file specified, uses predictable log filenames, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the PID-audit.log temporary file...
CVE-2005-4802
Flexbackup 1.2.1 and earlier allows local users to overwrite files and execute code via a symlink attack on temporary files. NOTE: the raw source referenced an incorrect candidate number; this is the correct number to use...
CVE-2005-3126
The 1 kantiword kantiword.sh and 2 gantiword gantiword.sh scripts in antiword 0.35 and earlier allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary a output and b error files...
DEBIAN-CVE-2005-3126
The 1 kantiword kantiword.sh and 2 gantiword gantiword.sh scripts in antiword 0.35 and earlier allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary a output and b error files...
CVE-2005-3342
noweb 2.10c and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via symlink attacks on temporary files in 1 lib/toascii.nw and 2 shell/roff.mm...
CVE-2005-4803
graphviz before 2.2.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files. NOTE: this issue was originally associated with a different CVE identifier, CVE-2005-2965, which had been used for multiple different issues. This is the correct identifier...
CVE-2005-4802
Flexbackup 1.2.1 and earlier allows local users to overwrite files and execute code via a symlink attack on temporary files. NOTE: the raw source referenced an incorrect candidate number; this is the correct number to use...
CVE-2005-4803
graphviz before 2.2.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files. NOTE: this issue was originally associated with a different CVE identifier, CVE-2005-2965, which had been used for multiple different issues. This is the correct identifier...