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DSA-286 gs-common - insecure temporary file
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DSA-279 metrics - insecure temporary file creation
Paul Szabo and Matt Zimmerman discovered two similar problems in metrics, a tools for software metrics. Two scripts in this package, "halstead" and "gather\stats", open temporary files without taking appropriate security precautions. "halstead" is installed as a user program, while "gather\stats"...
cscope -- symlink attack vulnerability
cscope is vulnerable to a symlink attack which could lead to an attacker overwriting arbitrary files with the permissions of the user running cscope...
CVE-2001-1378
fetchmailconf in fetchmail before 5.7.4 allows local users to overwrite files of other users via a symlink attack on temporary files...
CVE-2002-0678
CDE ToolTalk database server ttdbserver allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the transaction log file used by the TTTRANSACTION RPC procedure...
CVE-2002-0178
The CVE-2002-0178 issue affects the uudecode utility in the GNU Sharutils package prior to version 4.2.1, which does not validate the destination filename against pipes or symbolic links. This can allow a local attacker to overwrite files or escalate privileges by decoding into sensitive or open ...
CVE-2002-1512
xbru in BRU Workstation 17.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the xbrudscheck.dd temporary file...
CVE-2002-1514
gdslockmgr in Borland InterBase allows local users to overwrite files and gain privileges via a symlink attack on a "iscinit1.X" temporary file, as demonstrated by modifying the xinetdbd file...
CVE-2002-0169
The CVE-2002-0169 issue concerns the default DocBook stylesheet shipped with Red Hat Linux 6.2–7.2. The insecure option in the stylesheet allowed an untrusted DocBook document to cause file writes outside the current directory by using a full pathname as an element identifier, potentially affecti...
CVE-2002-0887
scoadmin for Caldera/SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 and 5.0.6 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files, as demonstrated using log files...
CVE-2002-0759
CVE-2002-0759 affects bzip2 prior to 1.0.2, notably in FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier and OpenLinux 3.1/3.1.1. The issue is that bzip2 does not use the O_EXCL flag to create files during decompression and does not warn if an existing file would be overwritten. This could allow an attacker to overwrite f...
CVE-2002-0178
uudecode, as available in the sharutils package before 4.2.1, does not check whether the filename of the uudecoded file is a pipe or symbolic link, which could allow attackers to overwrite files or execute commands...
CVE-2002-0157
Nautilus 1.0.4 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the .nautilus-metafile.xml metadata file...
CVE-2002-1502
Symbolic link vulnerability in xbreaky before 0.5.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink from the user's .breakyhighscores file to the target file...
CVE-2002-1516
rpcbind in SGI IRIX, when using the -w command line switch, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack...
CVE-2002-0157
Nautilus 1.0.4 and earlier are affected by CVE-2002-0157 due to a symlink-attack in the creation of the .nautilus-metafile.xml metadata file. A local attacker can cause overwrites of arbitrary files in a target directory by exploiting an unchecked symlink when Nautilus copies files between direct...
CVE-2001-1378
The CVE-2001-1378 issue affects fetchmailconf in fetchmail prior to 5.7.4, where a symlink attack on temporary files allows local users to overwrite files owned by other users. The root cause is improper handling of temporary files during configuration, enabling a local, non-privileged user to le...
CVE-2003-0086
The code for writing reg files in Samba before 2.2.8 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a race condition involving chown...