CVE-2005-1270

The 1 checkupdate.sh and 2 rkhunter script in Rootkit Hunter before 1.2.3-r1 create temporary files with predictable file names, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack...

rkhunter -- insecure temporary file creation

Gentoo reports: Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen and Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Team have reported that the checkupdate.sh script and the main rkhunter script insecurely creates several temporary files with predictable filenames. A local attacker could create symbolic links in the...