Sun Solaris catman creates temporary files insecurely

Overview catman, the unix manual display utility, creates insecure temporary files with predictable names in a world-writable directory. Since catman executes with system administration privileges, a symbolic link attack could overwrite arbitrary files. Description There is a vulnerability in...

Проблемы в скриптах начальной загрузки Red Hat (symbolic link)

Небезопасная работа с временными файлами в скрипте setserial...

ISC inn creates temporary files insecurely

Overview inn, a network news agent, may be configured on some operating systems to use a publically-writeable directory for its temporary files. This may be exploited to gain access to the news account. Description inn is distributed on a variety of Linux platforms. The program is written under t...

CVE-2001-0430

Vulnerability in exuberant-ctags before 3.2.4-0.1 insecurely creates temporary files...

CVE-2001-0243

Windows Media Player 7 and earlier stores Internet shortcuts in a user's Temporary Files folder with a fixed filename instead of in the Internet Explorer cache, which causes the HTML in those shortcuts to run in the Local Computer Zone instead of the Internet Zone, which allows remote attackers t...

CVE-2001-0430

The CVE-2001-0430 entry refers to a vulnerability in exuberant-ctags prior to version 3.2.4-0.1 where temporary files are created insecurely, leading to potential local file exposure or corruption. Public sources in the connected documents confirm the issue and identify the Debian package update ...

Samba creates temporary files insecurely

Overview Samba handles temporary files insecurely, allowing arbitrary files to be overwritten and left in a state that would permit later modification. Description Samba is an implementation of the Server Message Block SMB protocol. Some versions of samba handle temporary files in an insecure...

exuberant-ctags creates temporary files insecurely

Overview Some versions of exuberant-ctags, a source code navigation utility, create and use temporary files insecurely, leading to local file corruption and possible denial-of-service. Description Exuberent-ctags is a source code navigation utility. It creates temporary files with predictable nam...

CVE-1999-1042

Cisco Resource Manager CRM 1.0 and 1.1 creates world-readable log files and temporary files, which may expose sensitive information, to local users such as user IDs, passwords and SNMP community strings...

CVE-1999-1038

Tiger 2.2.3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on various temporary files in Tiger's default working directory, as defined by the WORKDIR variable...

CVE-1999-1095

The CVE-1999-1095 entry concerns the sort utility. It describes that sort creates temporary files and follows symbolic links, enabling a local user to modify arbitrary files writable by the user running sort. This impact is observed in updatedb and other programs that invoke sort. The documents d...

CVE-1999-1036

COPS 1.04 allows local users to overwrite or create arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files in 1 resdiff, 2 ca.src, and 3 mail.chk...

CVE-1999-1439

CVE-1999-1439 : The vulnerability is in gcc 2.7.2, where local users can overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files ending in .i, .s, or .o. The provided documents describe the affected component and the underlying cause (symlink/temporary file race) and identify the impact...

CVE-2001-1378

fetchmailconf in fetchmail before 5.7.4 allows local users to overwrite files of other users via a symlink attack on temporary files...

CVE-2001-0556

The Nirvana Editor NEdit 5.1.1 and earlier allows a local attacker to overwrite other users' files via a symlink attack on 1 backup files or 2 temporary files used when nedit prints a file or portions of a file...

OpenSSH allows arbitrary file deletion via symlink redirection of temporary file

Overview Due to insecure handling of temporary files, some versions of sshd, an encrypted connection program, can delete any file named "cookies" accessible via the computer running sshd. Description sshd is the server software used to support ssh, a popular encryted connection program. Some...

Aladdin Ghostscript creates insecure temporary files allowing a local user to create symbolic links to other files

Overview Alladin Ghostscript, a previewer for postscript files, creates temporary files with a predictable names. The creation allows attackers to use symbolic links to overwrite other files on the host. Description Alladin Ghostscript is a previewer for postscript files. It creates temporary fil...

sort creates temporary files insecurely

Overview The sort utility creates temporary files insecurely, making sort subject to a denial-of-service attack. Description The UNIX sort utility creates temporary files with predictable names. The creation is done in a manner to prevent information loss via a symlink attack, but existence of th...

remedy.txt

Security Holes in Remedy Client Installer Summary ------- Due to improper handling of temporary files, the installer program for Remedy Software's Action Request System client for unix can allow local users to gain root privileges. Details ------- The installer script for the unix AR clients...

mf.txt

Potential Root Compromise in MicroFocus Cobol Summary ------- If the AppTrack feature is enabled, the default install of MicroFocus Cobol 4.1 Merant's commercial suite of cobol utilities contains a security hole which can lead to root compromise. Specifics --------- In the default install,...