Scientific Linux Security Update : cman on SL5.x i386/x86_64

Multiple insecure temporary file use flaws were found in fenceapcsnmp and ccstool. A local attacker could use these flaws to overwrite an arbitrary file writable by a victim running those utilities typically root with the output of the utilities via a symbolic link attack. CVE-2008-4579,...

DEBIAN-CVE-2012-2760

modauthopenid before 0.7 for Apache uses world-readable permissions for /tmp/modauthopenid.db, which allows local users to obtain session ids...

Metasploit pcap_log symbolic links vulnerability

Symbolic links vulnerability on temporary file creation...

DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3355

1 AlbumTab.py, 2 ArtistTab.py, 3 LinksTab.py, and 4 LyricsTab.py in the Context module in GNOME Rhythmbox 0.13.3 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a symlink attack on a temporary HTML template file in the /tmp/context directory...

CVE-2012-2451

The Config::IniFiles module before 2.71 for Perl creates temporary files with predictable names, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information. NOTE: it has been reported that this might only be...

GLSA-201206-17 : virtualenv: Insecure temporary file usage

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201206-17 virtualenv: Insecure temporary file usage The virtualenv.py script in virtualenv does not handle temporary files securely. Impact : A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the...

CVE-2012-2179

libodm.a in IBM AIX 5.3, 6.1, and 7.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file...

CVE-2012-2179

libodm.a in IBM AIX 5.3, 6.1, and 7.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file...

GLSA-201203-18 : Minitube: Insecure temporary file usage

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201203-18 Minitube: Insecure temporary file usage Tom Pruina reported that Minitube does not handle temporary files securely. Impact : A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges...

OpenJDK: insecure temporary file permissions (JRE, 7143606)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment JRE component in Oracle Java SE 7 update 4 and earlier, 6 update 32 and earlier, 5 update 35 and earlier, and 1.4.237 and earlier allows local users to affect confidentiality via unknown vectors related to printing on Solaris or Linux...

DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3345

ioquake3 before r2253 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/ioq3.pid temporary file...

CVE-2012-3345

ioquake3 before r2253 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/ioq3.pid temporary file...

CVE-2012-3345

ioquake3 before r2253 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/ioq3.pid temporary file...

CVE-2012-3345

ioquake3 before r2253 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/ioq3.pid temporary file...

RHEL 5 : java-1.6.0-openjdk (RHSA-2012:0730)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:0730 advisory. - OpenJDK: improper protection of CORBA data models CORBA, 7079902 CVE-2012-1711 - OpenJDK: fontmanager layout lookup code memory corruption...

Fedora 17 : groff-1.21-9.fc17 (2012-8577)

older security fixes - CVE-2009-5044: insecure temporary file handling in pdfroff - CVE-2009-5080: improper handling of failed attempts to create temporary directories in eqn2graph/pic2graph/grap2graph - CVE-2009-5081: roff2.pl and groffer.pl use easy-to-guess temporary file names Note that Tenab...

Fedora 15 : groff-1.21-4.fc15 (2012-8590)

older security fixes : - CVE-2009-5044: insecure temporary file handling in pdfroff - CVE-2009-5080: improper handling of failed attempts to create temporary directories in eqn2graph/pic2graph/grap2graph - CVE-2009-5081: roff2.pl and groffer.pl use easy-to-guess temporary file names Note that...

Fedora 16 : groff-1.21-4.fc16 (2012-8596)

older security fixes : - CVE-2009-5044: insecure temporary file handling in pdfroff - CVE-2009-5080: improper handling of failed attempts to create temporary directories in eqn2graph/pic2graph/grap2graph - CVE-2009-5081: roff2.pl and groffer.pl use easy-to-guess temporary file names Note that...

DEBIAN-CVE-2012-1906

Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.15 and 2.7.x before 2.7.13, and Puppet Enterprise PE Users 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.x, 2.0.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 uses predictable file names when installing Mac OS X packages from a remote source, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files or install arbitrary packages...

CVE-2011-2722

The senddatatostdout function in prnt/hpijs/hpcupsfax.cpp in HP Linux Imaging and Printing HPLIP 3.x before 3.11.10 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/hpcupsfax.out temporary file...