Debian DSA-053-1 : nedit - insecure temporary file

The nedit Nirvana editor package as shipped in the non-free section accompanying Debian GNU/Linux 2.2/potato had a bug in its printing code: when printing text it would create a temporary file with the to be printed text and pass that on to the print system. The temporary file was not created...

Debian DSA-366-1 : eroaster - insecure temporary file

eroaster, a frontend for burning CD-R media using cdrecord, does not take appropriate security precautions when creating a temporary file for use as a lockfile. This bug could potentially be exploited to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running eroaster. %NASLMINLEVEL 703...

Debian DSA-019-1 : squid - insecure tempfile handling

WireX discovered a potential temporary file race condition in the way that squid sends out email messages notifying the administrator about updating the program. This could lead to arbitrary files to get overwritten. However the code would only be executed if running a very bleeding edge release ...

CVE-2004-0559

The maketemp.pl script in Usermin 1.070 and 1.080 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files at install time via a symlink attack on the /tmp/.usermin directory...

[VulnWatch] Php Vulnerability N. 2

Let's go for the second one: ========================================= Title: Overwrite $FILE array in rfc1867 - Mime multipart/form-data File Upload Affected: Php = 5.0.1 Not Affected: it seems none Vulnerability Type: Possible write of a downloaded file in an arbitrary location. Vendor Status:...

CVE-2004-0851

The 1 writelist and 2 dumpcurrlist functions in Net-Acct before 0.71 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files...

CVE-2004-0851

The 1 writelist and 2 dumpcurrlist functions in Net-Acct before 0.71 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files...

CVE-2003-0022

CVE-2003-0022 concerns rxvt 2.7.8: the terminal emulator’s screen-dump escape sequence can be used to overwrite arbitrary files when the sequence is echoed to a user’s terminal (e.g., while viewing a file containing the sequence). The vulnerability stems from the screen-dump feature, and the expl...

CVE-2003-0022

The "screen dump" feature in rxvt 2.7.8 allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a certain character escape sequence when it is echoed to a user's terminal, e.g. when the user views a file containing the malicious sequence...

CVE-2004-0108

The isag utility, which processes sysstat data, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files, a different vulnerability than CAN-2004-0107...

Mozilla Predictable Temporary File Symbolic Link Arbitrary File Overwrite (deprecated)

Binary data 1309.prm...

DEBIAN-CVE-2004-0175

Directory traversal vulnerability in scp for OpenSSH before 3.4p1 allows remote malicious servers to overwrite arbitrary files. NOTE: this may be a rediscovery of CVE-2000-0992...

Sendmail 'decode' Alias Arbitrary File Overwrite

Binary data 2026.prm...

CVE-2004-0545

LVM for AIX 5.1 and 5.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack...

DEBIAN-CVE-2004-0647

shorewall 1.4.10c and earlier, and 2.0.x before 2.0.3a, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the chains-$$ temporary file...

CVE-2004-0647

shorewall 1.4.10c and earlier, and 2.0.x before 2.0.3a, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the chains-$$ temporary file...

[ GLSA 200407-07 ] Shorewall : Insecure temp file handling

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RHEL 2.1 : unzip (RHSA-2003:200)

Updated unzip packages resolving a vulnerability allowing arbitrary files to be overwritten are now available. Updated 15 August 2003 Ben Laurie found that the original patch to fix this issue missed a case where the path component included a quoted slash. These updated packages contain a new pat...

security flaw

Utempter allows device names that contain .. dot dot directory traversal sequences, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on device names in combination with an application that trusts the utmp or wtmp files...

Multiple Vulnerabilities in Samba

Background Samba is a package which allows UNIX systems to act as file servers for Windows computers. It also allows UNIX systems to mount shares exported by a Samba/CIFS/Windows server. smbmount is a program in the Samba package which allows normal users on a UNIX system to mount remote shares...