DEBIAN-CVE-2003-0885

Xscreensaver 4.14 contains certain debugging code that should have been omitted, which causes Xscreensaver to create temporary files insecurely in the 1 apple2, 2 xanalogtv, and 3 pong screensavers, and allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack...

PT-2002-1005 · Debian +1 · Idle +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Python versions prior to 2.2.1 idle package in Debian GNU/Linux affected versions not specified Description: The issue concerns a predictable temporary file name generation in the os. execvpe function from os.py in Python, potentially allowin...

NTFS and PGP interact to expose EFS encrypted data

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 NTFS and PGP interact to expose EFS encrypted data c 2002 Ry Jones, Airgap Networks. Summary: NTFS, a feature of Windows XP, supports an "encrypted" attribute. PGP 7.0.3 Freeware, a product of Network Associates, supports wiping files as they are...

CVE-1999-1036

CVE-1999-1036 affects COPS 1.04. A local user can exploit a symlink attack on temporary files in res_diff, ca.src, and mail.chk to overwrite or create arbitrary files. The underlying issue is insecure handling of temporary files that allows a local attacker to gain unauthorized file writes. The a...

Security Update: bash creates insecure temp files

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Caldera Systems, Inc. Security Advisory Subject: bash creates insecure temp files Advisory number: CSSA-2000-042.0 Issue date: 2000 November, 24 Cross reference: 1. Problem Description Bash creates temp files for here scripts insecurely. This can be...

CVE-2000-0270

The CVE affects Emacs 20’s make-temp-name Lisp function, which creates temporary files with predictable names, enabling a symlink attack. This is described by CVE-2000-0270 in NVD; connected sources note the same vulnerability. The available documents do not specify a patch version or workaround....