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...

[SECURITY] [DSA 279-1] New metrics packages fix insecure temporary file creation

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 279-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze April 7th, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

DEBIAN-CVE-2003-0120

adb2mhc in the mhc-utils package before 0.25+20010625-7.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a default temporary directory with a predictable name...

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...

AOL Instant Messenger 4.x - Arbitrary File Creation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4526/info An issue has been reported, which could allow an AIM user to save files to arbitrary locations. Reportedly, this is achievable when a direct connection is made between two AIM users. Files that are sent to a user include an img tag and a data ta...

AOL Instant Messenger 4.x - Arbitrary File Creation

AOL Instant Messenger 4.x - Arbitrary File Creation source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4526/info An issue has been reported, which could allow an AIM user to save files to arbitrary locations. Reportedly, this is achievable when a direct connection is made between two AIM users. Files that...

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] [DSA-016-3] Correction: New version of wu-ftpd released

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-016-3 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze January 24, 2001 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : wu-ftpd...

[SECURITY] [DSA-016-2] Correction: New version of wu-ftpd released

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-016-2 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze January 23, 2001 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : wu-ftpd...

Immunix OS Security update for lots of temp file problems

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Immunix OS Security Advisory Summary Date: January 10, 2000 Advisory ID: IMNX-2000-70-028-01 Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman [email protected] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- In an internal aud...

catman-race.txt

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Solaris 2.7/2.8 catman temp file vulnerability. Larry W. Cashdollar Vapid Labs Date Published: 12/18/2000 Advisory ID: 11242000-02 Risk: Low Title: catman temp file vulnerability. Class: Design Error Remotely Exploitable: no Locally Exploitable: Yes...

Catman file clobbering vulnerability Solaris 2.x

Solaris 2.7/2.8 catman temp file vulnerability. Larry W. Cashdollar Vapid Labs Date Published: 12/18/2000 Advisory ID: 11242000-02 Risk: Low Title: catman temp file vulnerability. Class: insecure temp file handling. Remotely Exploitable: no Locally Exploitable: Yes Vulnerability Description:...

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...

[SECURITY] New version of xpdf released

Package : xpdf Problem type : local exploit Debian-specific: no xpdf as distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 suffered from two problems: 1. creation of temporary files was not done safely which made xpdf vulnerable to a symlink attack. 2. when handling URLs in documents no checking was done for...

Microsoft Active Movie Control 1.0 - Filetype

Microsoft Active Movie Control 1.0 - Filetype source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1221/info The Microsoft Active Movie Control a multimedia ActiveX control will download files of any type specified in the control parameters in an HTML document, regardless of whether or not they are a valid...

Microsoft Active Movie Control 1.0 - Filetype

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1221/info The Microsoft Active Movie Control a multimedia ActiveX control will download files of any type specified in the control parameters in an HTML document, regardless of whether or not they are a valid media type. A hostile website, HTML email or...

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....

CVE-1999-0458

The CVE-1999-0458 entry concerns L0phtcrack 2.5, which creates temporary files in the system TEMP directory. The underlying issue is that these temporary files could contain password information, exposing partial confidentiality of credentials. The available connected Red Hat and CVE listing refe...

Solaris 2.5.1 lp lpsched - Symlink

Solaris 2.5.1 lp lpsched - Symlink !/bin/sh lpNet & temp file exploit: break lp, then use lp priv to break root or bin, etc.... Written by: Chris Sheldon [email protected] Tested on Solaris-2.5.1: SunOS testhost 5.5.1 Generic sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-20 Caveat: This system is running...