CVE-2005-0991: Undefined Security Weakness

RC.BOOT in IBM AIX 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3 does not "use a secure location for temporary files," which allows local users to have an unknown impact, probably by overwriting files...

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MySQL 4.0.23 and earlier, and 4.1.x up to 4.1.10, uses predictable file names when creating temporary tables, which allows local users with CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE privileges to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack...

CVE-2005-0894

The CVE-2005-0894 issue affects OpenMosixview 1.5 (OpenmosixView) and its OpenMosixcollector daemon. A symlink attack allows local users to overwrite or delete arbitrary files by exploiting insecure temporary file handling in the openmosixcollector directory and in nodes.tmp. Connected advisories...

CVE-2005-0894: Undefined Security Weakness

OpenmosixCollector and OpenMosixView in OpenMosixView 1.5 allow local users to overwrite or delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack on 1 temporary files in the openmosixcollector directory or 2 nodes.tmp...

CVE-2005-0866

CVE-2005-0866 affects cdrecord before 4:2.0. When DEBUG is enabled, it allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files. The issue is documented across NVD, Ubuntu, Mandrake advisories, and related CVE entries, which note that an updated package containing a...

CVE-2005-0866

cdrecord before 4:2.0, when DEBUG is enabled, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files...

CVE-2005-0587

Firefox before 1.0.1 and Mozilla before 1.7.6 allows remote malicious web sites to overwrite arbitrary files by tricking the user into downloading a .LNK link file twice, which overwrites the file that was referenced in the first .LNK file...

GLSA-200503-30 : Mozilla Suite: Multiple vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200503-30 Mozilla Suite: Multiple vulnerabilities The following vulnerabilities were found and fixed in the Mozilla Suite: Mark Dowd from ISS X-Force reported an exploitable heap overrun in the GIF processing of obsolete Netscape...

CVE-2005-0796: Undefined Security Weakness

Directory traversal vulnerability in HolaCMS 1.4.9-1 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a "holaDB/votes" followed by a .. dot dot in the votefilename parameter, which bypasses the check by HolaCMS to ensure that the file is in the holaDB/votes directory...

CVE-2005-0795: Undefined Security Weakness

HolaCMS 1.4.9 does not restrict file access to the holaDB/votes directory, which allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a modified votefilename parameter...

CVE-2002-1600

CVE-2002-1600 describes a directory traversal vulnerability in Mike Spice’s My Classifieds (classifieds.cgi) prior to version 1.3. The flaw enables remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via the category parameter, indicating insufficient input validation/sanitization in the CGI handling o...

CVE-2005-0099

The SDL port of abuse abuse-SDL before 2.00 does not properly drop privileges before creating certain files, which allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files...

CVE-2005-0099: Undefined Security Weakness

The SDL port of abuse abuse-SDL before 2.00 does not properly drop privileges before creating certain files, which allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files...

GLSA-200503-14 : KDE dcopidlng: Insecure temporary file creation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200503-14 KDE dcopidlng: Insecure temporary file creation Davide Madrisan has discovered that the dcopidlng script creates temporary files in a world-writable directory with predictable names. Impact : A local attacker could creat...

CVE-2004-1027

Directory traversal vulnerability in the -x extract command line option in unarj allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via an arj archive with filenames that contain .. dot dot sequences...

GLSA-200502-32 : UnAce: Buffer overflow and directory traversal vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200502-32 UnAce: Buffer overflow and directory traversal vulnerabilities Ulf Harnhammar discovered that UnAce suffers from buffer overflows when testing, unpacking or listing specially crafted ACE archives CAN-2005-0160. He also...

CVE-2005-0587

CVE-2005-0587 : Firefox versions before 1.0.1 and Mozilla before 1.7.6 are affected. A remote attacker can trick a user into downloading a .LNK file twice, causing arbitrary files referenced by the first link to be overwritten. This stems from how the .LNK files are processed during download. Aff...

UnAce: Buffer overflow and directory traversal vulnerabilities

Background UnAce is an utility to extract, view and test the contents of an ACE archive. Description Ulf Harnhammar discovered that UnAce suffers from buffer overflows when testing, unpacking or listing specially crafted ACE archives CAN-2005-0160. He also found out that UnAce is vulnerable to...

CVE-2005-0161

CVE-2005-0161 concerns unace 1.2b, with confirmed issues in multiple advisories. The vulnerability allows directory traversal via ACE archives containing sequences such as "../" or absolute pathnames, potentially enabling overwriting arbitrary files. Some sources also describe buffer overflows du...

Overwrite arbitrary files downloading .lnk twice — Mozilla

If a windows user can be convinced to download a .lnk file twice to the same location an attacker can overwrite essentially delete arbitrary files on the user's machine: the file referenced by the first .lnk will be overwritten by the second download rather than replacing the .lnk itself. On some...