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...

[Full-disclosure] MDKSA-2006:001 - Updated tkcvs packages fix insecure temporary file vulnerability

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2006:001 http://www.mandriva.com/security/ Package : tkcvs Date : January 3, 2006 Affected: 10.2, 2006.0 Problem Description: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena discovered that tkdiff created temporary files in an...

RHEL 3 : perl (RHSA-2005:881)

Updated Perl packages that fix security issues and bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Perl is a high-level programming language commonly used for system administration utilitie...

[SECURITY] [DSA 927-2] New tkdiff packages fix insecure temporary file creation

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 927-2 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze December 29th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

[SECURITY] [DSA 928-1] New dhis-tools-dns packages fix insecure temporary file creation

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 928-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze December 27th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

[SECURITY] [DSA 928-1] New dhis-tools-dns packages fix insecure temporary file creation

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 928-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze December 27th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

[SECURITY] [DSA 927-1] New tkdiff packages fix insecure temporary file creation

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 927-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze December 27th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

[Full-disclosure] [SECURITY] [DSA 928-1] New dhis-tools-dns packages fix insecure temporary file creation

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 928-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze December 27th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

[SA18218] Bugzilla "syncshadowdb" Script Insecure Temporary File Creation

TITLE: Bugzilla "syncshadowdb" Script Insecure Temporary File Creation SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA18218 VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/18218/ CRITICAL: Less critical IMPACT: Privilege escalation WHERE: Local system SOFTWARE: Bugzilla 2.x http://secunia.com/product/396/ DESCRIPTION:...

perl security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2005:881 Updated Perl packages that fix security issues and bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Perl is a high-level programming languag...

tkdiff -- temporary file symlink privilege escalation

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña reports a vulnerability in tkdiff which allows local users to gain priveleges of the user running tkdiff due to insecure temporary file creation...

GLSA-200511-19 : eix: Insecure temporary file creation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200511-19 eix: Insecure temporary file creation Eric Romang discovered that eix creates a temporary file with a predictable name. eix creates a temporary file in /tmp/eix..sync where is the process ID of the shell running eix...

USN-223-1: Inkscape vulnerability

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña discovered that Inkscape's ps2epsi.sh script, which converts PostScript files to Encapsulated PostScript format, creates a temporary file in an insecure way. A local attacker could exploit this with a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the...

CVE-2005-3885

The ps2epsi extension shell script ps2epsi.sh in Inkscape before 0.41 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the tmpepsifile.epsi temporary file...

DEBIAN-CVE-2005-3885

The ps2epsi extension shell script ps2epsi.sh in Inkscape before 0.41 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the tmpepsifile.epsi temporary file...

CVE-2005-3885

The ps2epsi extension shell script ps2epsi.sh in Inkscape before 0.41 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the tmpepsifile.epsi temporary file...

CVE-2005-3885

The ps2epsi extension shell script ps2epsi.sh in Inkscape before 0.41 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the tmpepsifile.epsi temporary file...

[SECURITY] [DSA 907-1] New ipmenu packages fix insecure temporary file creation

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 907-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze November 23rd, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...