texindex -- temporary file privilege escalation

Problem description The "sortoffline" function used by texindex1 employs the "maketempname" function, which produces predictable file names and fails to validate that the paths do not exist. Impact These predictable temporary file names are problematic because they allow an attacker to take...

FreeBSD-SA-06:02.ee

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-06:02.ee Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: ee temporary file privilege escalation Category: core Module: ee Announced: 2006-01-11 Credits: Christian...

FreeBSD-SA-06:01.texindex

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-06:01.texindex Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Texindex temporary file privilege escalation Category: contrib Module: texinfo Announced: 2006-01-11...

CVE-2005-3126

The 1 kantiword kantiword.sh and 2 gantiword gantiword.sh scripts in antiword 0.35 and earlier allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary a output and b error files...

CVE-2005-4536

Mail::Audit module in libmail-audit-perl 2.1-5, when logging is enabled without a default log file specified, uses predictable log filenames, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the PID-audit.log temporary file...

CVE-2005-4802

Flexbackup 1.2.1 and earlier allows local users to overwrite files and execute code via a symlink attack on temporary files. NOTE: the raw source referenced an incorrect candidate number; this is the correct number to use...

CVE-2005-3342

noweb 2.10c and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via symlink attacks on temporary files in 1 lib/toascii.nw and 2 shell/roff.mm...

CVE-2005-4803

graphviz before 2.2.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files. NOTE: this issue was originally associated with a different CVE identifier, CVE-2005-2965, which had been used for multiple different issues. This is the correct identifier...

DEBIAN-CVE-2005-3126

The 1 kantiword kantiword.sh and 2 gantiword gantiword.sh scripts in antiword 0.35 and earlier allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary a output and b error files...

CVE-2005-2714

passwd in Directory Services in Mac OS X 10.3.x before 10.3.9 and 10.4.x before 10.4.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the .pwtmp.PID temporary file...

CVE-2005-4802

Flexbackup 1.2.1 and earlier allows local users to overwrite files and execute code via a symlink attack on temporary files. NOTE: the raw source referenced an incorrect candidate number; this is the correct number to use...

CVE-2005-4784

Multiple buffer overflows in the POSIX readdirr function, as used in multiple packages, allow local users to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via 1 a symlink attack that exploits a race condition between opendir and pathcon calls and changes the filesystem to one with...

CVE-2005-4803

graphviz before 2.2.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files. NOTE: this issue was originally associated with a different CVE identifier, CVE-2005-2965, which had been used for multiple different issues. This is the correct identifier...

CVE-2005-2527

Race condition in Java 1.4.2 before 1.4.2 Release 2 on Apple Mac OS X allows local users to corrupt files or create arbitrary files via unspecified attack vectors related to a temporary directory, possibly due to a symlink attack...

CVE-2005-3126

The 1 kantiword kantiword.sh and 2 gantiword gantiword.sh scripts in antiword 0.35 and earlier allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary a output and b error files...

CVE-2005-4536

Mail::Audit module in libmail-audit-perl 2.1-5, when logging is enabled without a default log file specified, uses predictable log filenames, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the PID-audit.log temporary file...

DEBIAN-CVE-2005-3342

noweb 2.10c and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via symlink attacks on temporary files in 1 lib/toascii.nw and 2 shell/roff.mm...

CVE-2005-4691

imake in NetBSD before 2.0.3, NetBSD-current before 12 September 2005, certain versions of X.Org, and certain versions of XFree86 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the temporary file for the file.0 target, which is used for a pre-formatted manual page...

CVE-2005-3126

The 1 kantiword kantiword.sh and 2 gantiword gantiword.sh scripts in antiword 0.35 and earlier allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary a output and b error files...

DEBIAN-CVE-2005-4803

graphviz before 2.2.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files. NOTE: this issue was originally associated with a different CVE identifier, CVE-2005-2965, which had been used for multiple different issues. This is the correct identifier...