Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200510-01 (gtkdiskfree)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200510-01. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 822-1 (gtkdiskfree)

The remote host is missing an update to gtkdiskfree announced via advisory DSA 822-1. Eric Romang discovered that gtkdiskfree, a GNOME program that shows free and used space on filesystems, creates a temporary file in an insecure fashion. The old stable distribution woody does not contain the...

[SECURITY] [DSA 822-1] New gtkdiskfree packages fix insecure temporary file

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 822-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze September 29th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

CVE-2005-2918

gtkdiskfree (versions 1.9.3 and earlier) is affected by CAN-2005-2918/CVE-2005-2918 due to insecure creation of a temporary file, enabling local attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack. Impact is local access with the user’s privileges; no remote code execution is indicated in...