GLSA-200504-25 : Rootkit Hunter: Insecure temporary file creation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200504-25 Rootkit Hunter: Insecure temporary file creation 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...

DEBIAN-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...

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...

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...

Rootkit Hunter: Insecure temporary file creation

Background Rootkit Hunter is a scanning tool to detect rootkits, backdoors and local exploits on a local machine. Rootkit Hunter uses downloaded data files to check file integrity. These files are updated via the checkupdate.sh script. Description Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen and Tavis Ormandy of th...