CVE-2000-0934

Glint in Red Hat Linux 5.2 is affected. The vulnerability allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and cause a denial of service via a symlink attack. Root cause is a symlink-related flaw in Glint that enables path manipulation leading to file overwrites and service disruption. No explicit...

CVE-2000-1162

Ghostscript before 5.10-16 is vulnerable to a local symlink attack that lets a local user overwrite files owned by others by creating predictable temporary files. The root cause involves using mktemp to create temporary files (as noted in vendor advisories), enabling file overwrites by users runn...

CVE-2000-1136

CVE-2000-1136 affects elvis-tiny before 1.4-10 in Debian GNU/Linux (and possibly other Linux OS). The issue is a symlink attack that lets local users overwrite files of other users. Exploitation is Local with Low complexity and no authentication required; impacts include partial confidentiality, ...

CVE-2000-0080

AIX techlibss allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack...

[SECURITY] [DSA-011-1] New version of mgetty released

Package: mgetty Vulnerability: insecure tempfile Debian-specific: no Immunix reports that mgetty does not create temporary files in a secure manner, which could lead to a symlink attack. This has been corrected in mgetty 1.1.21-3potato1 We recommend you upgrade your mgetty package immediately. wg...

CVE-2000-1136

elvis-tiny before 1.4-10 in Debian GNU/Linux, and possibly other Linux operating systems, allows local users to overwrite files of other users via a symlink attack...

CVE-2000-1134

Multiple shell programs on various Unix systems, including 1 tcsh, 2 csh, 3 sh, and 4 bash, follow symlinks when processing redirects aka here-documents or in-here documents, which allows local users to overwrite files of other users via a symlink attack...

CVE-2000-1135

fshd fsh daemon in Debian GNU/Linux allows local users to overwrite files of other users via a symlink attack...

CVE-2000-1137

GNU ed before 0.2-18.1 allows local users to overwrite the files of other users via a symlink attack...

CVE-2000-1162

ghostscript before 5.10-16 allows local users to overwrite files of other users via a symlink attack...

[SECURITY] [DSA-009-1] multiple stunnel vulnerabilities

Package : stunnel Problem type : insecure file handling, format string bug Debian-specific: no Lez discovered a format string problem in stunnel a tool to create Universal SSL tunnel for other network daemons. Brian Hatch responded by stating he was already preparing a new release with multiple...

[SECURITY] [DSA-008-1] dialog symlink attack

Package : dialog Problem type : insecure temporary files Debian-specific: no Matt Kraai reported that he found a problem in the way dialog creates lock-files: it did not create them safely which made it susceptible to a symlink attack. This has been fixed in version 0.9a-20000118-3bis. wget url...

catman-race.txt

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Solaris 2.7/2.8 catman temp file vulnerability. Larry W. Cashdollar Vapid Labs Date Published: 12/18/2000 Advisory ID: 11242000-02 Risk: Low Title: catman temp file vulnerability. Class: Design Error Remotely Exploitable: no Locally Exploitable: Yes...

CVE-2000-0934

Glint in Red Hat Linux 5.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and cause a denial of service via a symlink attack...

CVE-2000-1134

CVE-2000-1134 concerns multiple shells (tcsh, csh, sh, bash) that follow symlinks when processing here-documents (<

CVE-2000-1134

Multiple shell programs on various Unix systems, including 1 tcsh, 2 csh, 3 sh, and 4 bash, follow symlinks when processing redirects aka here-documents or in-here documents, which allows local users to overwrite files of other users via a symlink attack...

CVE-2000-0959

glibc2 does not properly clear the LDDEBUGOUTPUT and LDDEBUG environmental variables when a program is spawned from a setuid program, which could allow local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack...

CVE-2000-0948

GnoRPM before 0.95 allows local users to modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack...

CVE-2000-0935

Samba Web Administration Tool SWAT in Samba 2.0.7 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the cgi.log file...

Solaris 2.72.8 Catman - Local Insecure tmp Symlink

Solaris 2.72.8 Catman - Local Insecure tmp Symlink !/usr/local/bin/perl -w The problem is catman creates files in /tmp insecurly. They are based on the PID of the catman process, catman will happily clobber any files that are symlinked to that file. The idea of this script is to create a block of...