mod_dosevasive -- insecure temporary file creation

An LSS Security Advisory reports: When a denial of service attack is detected, moddosevasive will, among other things, create a temporary file which it will use to trace actions from the offensive IP address. This file is insecurely created in /tmp and it's name is easily predictable. It is then...

[SA13679] aStats Insecure Temporary File Creation

TITLE: aStats Insecure Temporary File Creation SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA13679 VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/13679/ CRITICAL: Less critical IMPACT: Privilege escalation WHERE: Local system SOFTWARE: aStats 1.x http://secunia.com/product/4465/ DESCRIPTION: Javier Fernбndez-Sanguino...

a2ps -- insecure temporary file creation

A Secunia Security Advisory reports that Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña has found temporary file creation vulnerabilities in the fixps and psmandup scripts which are part of a2ps. These vulnerabilities could lead to an attacker overwriting arbitrary files with the credentials of the user running...

Fedora Core 3 : krb5-1.3.6-2 (2004-564)

A heap based buffer overflow bug was found in the administration library of Kerberos 1.3.5 and earlier. This overflow in the password history handling code could allow an authenticated remote attacker to execute commands on a realm's master Kerberos KDC. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures...

[SA13640] LPRng "lprng_certs.sh" Script Insecure Temporary File Creation

TITLE: LPRng "lprngcerts.sh" Script Insecure Temporary File Creation SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA13640 VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/13640/ CRITICAL: Less critical IMPACT: Privilege escalation WHERE: Local system SOFTWARE: LPRng 3.x http://secunia.com/product/4454/ DESCRIPTION: Javier...

USN-43-1: groff utility vulnerabilities

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña discovered that the auxiliary scripts "eqn2graph" and "pic2graph" created temporary files in an insecure way, which allowed exploitation of a race condition to create or overwrite files with the privileges of the user invoking the program...

Perl: Insecure temporary file creation

Background Perl is a stable, cross-platform programming language created by Larry Wall. Description Some Perl modules create temporary files in world-writable directories with predictable names. Impact A local attacker could create symbolic links in the temporary files directory, pointing to a...

mirrorselect: Insecure temporary file creation

Background mirrorselect is a tool to help select distfiles mirrors for Gentoo. Description Ervin Nemeth discovered that mirrorselect creates temporary files in world-writable directories with predictable names. Impact A local attacker could create symbolic links in the temporary files directory,...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gzip (MDKSA-2004:142)

The Trustix developers found some insecure temporary file creation problems in the zdiff, znew, and gzeze supplemental scripts in the gzip package. These flaws could allow local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack. A similar problem was fixed last year CVE-2003-0367 in which this same...

mirrorselect symbolic links problem

Symlink problem on temporary files creation...

[SECURITY] [DSA 603-1] New openssl packages fix insecure temporary file creation

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 603-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze December 1st, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

[SECURITY] [DSA 603-1] New openssl packages fix insecure temporary file creation

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 603-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze December 1st, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

CVE-2004-1110

The mtink status monitor before 1.0.5 for Epson printers allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the epson temporary file...

DSA-603-1 openssl - insecure temporary file

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FreeBSD : postgresql-contrib -- insecure temporary file creation (153)

The following package needs to be updated: postgresql-contrib %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated by freebsdpkg6a164d842f7f11d9a9e70001020eed82.nasl. Disabled on 2011/10/02. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. This script contains information extracted from VuXML :...

advRX181104.txt

| REXOTECdotCOM | |=-----= ADV RX171104 - Cscope :: Race condition on temporary file -----=| | | |=--- - INFORMATION ----------------------------------------------------------------------| VulnDiscovery: 2003/05/21 Release Date : 2004/11/17 Author : Gangstuck / Psirac Application : Cscope Affecte...

RX171104 Cscope v15.5 and minors - symlink vulnerability - advisory, exploit and patch.

| REXOTECdotCOM | |=-----= ADV RX171104 - Cscope :: Race condition on temporary file -----=| | | |=--- - INFORMATION ----------------------------------------------------------------------| VulnDiscovery: 2003/05/21 Release Date : 2004/11/17 Author : Gangstuck / Psirac [email protected]...

Cscope 13.0/15.x - Insecure Temporary File Creation (1)

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11697/info Cscope creates temporary files in an insecure way. A design error causes the application to fail to verify the presence of a file before writing to it. During execution, the utility reportedly creates temporary files in the system's temporary...

Debian DSA-583-1 : lvm10 - insecure temporary directory

Trustix developers discovered insecure temporary file creation in a supplemental script in the lvm10 package that didn't check for existing temporary directories, allowing local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive tex...

Debian DSA-559-1 : net-acct - insecure temporary file

Stefan Nordhausen has identified a local security hole in net-acct, a user-mode IP accounting daemon. Old and redundant code from some time way back in the past created a temporary file in an insecure fashion. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...