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...

Дырка в catman под Solaris

Некорректная работа с временными файлами...

Solaris 2.72.8 Catman - Local Insecure tmp Symlink

Solaris 2.72.8 Catman - Local Insecure tmp Symlink !/usr/local/bin/perl -w The problem is catman creates files in /tmp insecurly. They are based on the PID of the catman process, catman will happily clobber any files that are symlinked to that file. The idea of this script is to create a block of...

Solaris 2.x7.08 - Catman Race Condition (2)

Solaris 2.x7.08 - Catman Race Condition 2 source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2149/info catman is a utility for creating preformatted man pages, distributed as part of the Solaris Operating Environment. A problem exists which could allow local users to overwrite or corrupt files owned by...