[SECURITY] [DSA 137-1] New mm packages fix insecure temporary file creation

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 137-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze July 30th, 2002 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : mm Vulnerability...

DSA-137 mm - insecure temporary files

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Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: : Updated diffutils packages available

Updated diffutils packages are now available, fixing a temporary file handling vulnerability in the sdiff program. When using sdiff in interactive mode, a temporary file is created. The new diffutils packages make sure to create that file in a secure way...

CVE-2001-0465

TurboTax saves passwords in a temporary file when a user imports investment tax information from a financial institution, which could allow local users to obtain sensitive information...

Samsung ml85p Printer Driver 1.0 - Insecure Temporary File Creation (2)

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3008/info ml85p is a Linux driver for Samsung ML-85G series printers. It may be bundled with distributions of Ghostscript. ml85p does not check for symbolic links when creating image output files. These files are created in /tmp with a guessable naming...

MDKSA-2001:043 - rpmdrake update

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Linux-Mandrake Security Update Advisory Package name: rpmdrake Date: April 27th, 2001 Advisory ID: MDKSA-2001:043 Affected versions: 8.0 Problem Description: A temporary file vulnerability exists in rpmdrake. This updated rpmdrake corrects the problem...

Solaris 2.x/7.0/8 - 'Catman' Race Condition (2)

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2149/info catman is a utility for creating preformatted man pages, distributed as part of the Solaris Operating Environment. A problem exists which could allow local users to overwrite or corrupt files owned by other users. The problem occurs in the...

CVE-2000-0781

uagentsetup in ARCServeIT Client Agent 6.62 does not properly check for the existence or ownership of a temporary file which is moved to the agent.cfg configuration file, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands by modifying the temporary file before it is moved...

autobuse-angel.txt

Hi, This weekend I decided to play around with a couple of network management tools on securityfocus.com; Angel http://www.paganini.net/angel/, and Autobuse http://www.picante.com/gtaylor/download/. Unfortunately, upon review of the source, I noticed a bad trend. Both tools handle temporary files...