portupgrade -- insecure temporary file handling vulnerability

Simon L. Nielsen discovered that portupgrade handles temporary files in an insecure manner. This could allow an unprivileged local attacker to execute arbitrary commands or overwrite arbitrary files with the permissions of the user running portupgrade, typically root, by way of a symlink attack...

[SA14903] portupgrade Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

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GLSA-200504-06 : sharutils: Insecure temporary file creation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200504-06 sharutils: Insecure temporary file creation Joey Hess has discovered that the program unshar, which is a part of sharutils, creates temporary files in a world-writable directory with predictable names. Impact : A local...

CVE-2005-0990

unshar unshar.c in sharutils 4.2.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the unsh.X temporary file...

CVE-2005-0990

unshar unshar.c in sharutils 4.2.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the unsh.X temporary file...

ZH2005-02SA.txt

ZH2005-02SA Insecure tmp file creation in Wine 03/13/2005 Title: Insecure tmp file creation in Wine Author: Giovanni Delvecchio e-mail: [email protected] Version affected : Wine 20050211 and previous releases About Wine ======== from http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/wine-faq/index : Wine is a...

[Full-disclosure] [ZH2005-02SA] Insecure tmp file creation in Wine

Title: Insecure tmp file creation in Wine Author: Giovanni Delvecchio e-mail: [email protected] Version affected : Wine 20050211 and previous releases About Wine ======= from http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/wine-faq/index : Wine is a program which allows the operation of DOS and MS Windows...

wine -- information disclosure due to insecure temporary file handling

Due to insecure temporary file creation in the Wine Windows emulator, it is possible for any user to read potentially sensitive information from temporary registry files. When a Win32 application is launched by wine, wine makes a dump of the Windows registry in /tmp with name regxxxxyyyy.tmp ,...

[VulnWatch] Mysql insecure temporary file creation with CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE privilege escalation

Mysql insecure temporary file creation with CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE privilege escalation Author: Stefano Di Paola Vulnerable: Mysql = 4.0.23, 4.1.10 Type of Vulnerability: Local insecure temporary file creation Tested On : Mandrake 10.1 /Debian Sarge Vendor Status: Notified on March, 2nd 2005 --...

MySQL 4.x - CREATE FUNCTION mysql.func Table Arbitrary Library Injection

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12781/info MySQL is reported prone to multiple vulnerabilities that can be exploited by a remote authenticated attacker. The following individual issues are reported: - Insecure temporary file-creation vulnerability. Reports indicate that an attacker with...

mysql-server -- multiple remote vulnerabilities

SecurityFocus reports: MySQL is reported prone to an insecure temporary file creation vulnerability. Reports indicate that an attacker that has 'CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE' privileges on an affected installation may leverage this vulnerability to corrupt files with the privileges of the MySQL process...

CVE-2004-1689

sudoedit aka sudo -e in sudo 1.6.8 opens a temporary file with root privileges, which allows local users to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the temporary file before quitting sudoedit...

GLSA-200501-31 : teTeX, pTeX, CSTeX: Multiple vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200501-31 teTeX, pTeX, CSTeX: Multiple vulnerabilities teTeX, pTeX and CSTeX all make use of Xpdf code and may therefore be vulnerable to the various overflows that were discovered in Xpdf code CAN-2004-0888, CAN-2004-0889,...

GLSA-200501-33 : MySQL: Insecure temporary file creation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200501-33 MySQL: Insecure temporary file creation Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered that the 'mysqlaccess' script creates temporary files in world-writeable directories with predictab...

GLSA-200501-43 : f2c: Insecure temporary file creation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200501-43 f2c: Insecure temporary file creation Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena from the Debian Security Audit Team discovered that f2c creates temporary files in world-writeable directories with predictable names. Impact : A local...

RHEL 2.1 / 3 : perl (RHSA-2005:069)

An updated perl-DBI package that fixes a temporary file flaw in DBI::ProxyServer is now available. DBI is a database access Application Programming Interface API for the Perl programming language. The Debian Security Audit Project discovered that the DBI library creates a temporary PID file in an...

[SECURITY] [DSA 658-1] New libdbi-perl packages fix insecure temporary file

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Perl: rmtree and DBI tmpfile vulnerabilities

Background Perl is a cross platform programming language. The DBI is the standard database interface module for Perl. Description Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena discovered that the DBI library creates temporary files in an insecure, predictable way CAN-2005-0077. Paul Szabo found out that...

[SECURITY] [DSA 658-1] New libdbi-perl packages fix insecure temporary file

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[SECURITY] [DSA 658-1] New libdbi-perl packages fix insecure temporary file

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