Davfs2, lvm-user: Insecure tempfile handling

Background Davfs2 is a file system driver that allows you to mount a WebDAV server as a local disk drive. lvm-user is a package providing userland utilities for LVM Logical Volume Management 1.x features. Description Florian Schilhabel from the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team found that Davfs2...

mtink: Insecure tempfile handling

Background mtink is a status monitor and inkjet cartridge changer for some Epson printers. Description Tavis Ormandy from Gentoo Linux discovered that mtink uses insecure permissions on temporary files. Impact A local attacker could create symbolic links in the temporary files directory, pointing...

OpenSSL, Groff: Insecure tempfile handling

Background OpenSSL is a toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security protocols as well as a general-purpose cryptography library. It includes the derchop script, which is used to convert DER-encoded certificates to PEM format. Groff GNU Troff is a typesetting package...

GLSA-200410-25 : Netatalk: Insecure tempfile handling in etc2ps.sh

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200410-25 Netatalk: Insecure tempfile handling in etc2ps.sh The etc2ps.sh script creates temporary files in world-writeable directories with predictable names. Impact : A local attacker could create symbolic links in the temporary...

Netatalk: Insecure tempfile handling in etc2ps.sh

Background Netatalk is a kernel level implementation of the AppleTalk Protocol Suite, which allows Unix hosts to act as file, print, and time servers for Apple computers. It includes several script utilities, including etc2ps.sh. Description The etc2ps.sh script creates temporary files in...

glibc: Insecure tempfile handling in catchsegv script

Background glibc is a package that contains the GNU C library. Description The catchsegv script creates temporary files in world-writeable directories with predictable names. Impact A local attacker could create symbolic links in the temporary files directory, pointing to a valid file somewhere o...

GLSA-200410-19 : glibc: Insecure tempfile handling in catchsegv script

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200410-19 glibc: Insecure tempfile handling in catchsegv script The catchsegv script creates temporary files in world-writeable directories with predictable names. Impact : A local attacker could create symbolic links in the...

Debian DSA-021-1 : apache - insecure tempfile bug, broken mod_rewrite

WireX have found some occurrences of insecure opening of temporary files in htdigest and htpasswd. Both programs are not installed setuid or setgid and thus the impact should be minimal. The Apache group has released another security bugfix which fixes a vulnerability in modrewrite which may resu...

Debian DSA-011-2 : mgetty - insecure tempfile handling

Immunix reports that mgetty does not create temporary files in a secure manner, which could lead to a symlink attack. This has been corrected in mgetty 1.1.21-3potato1 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from...

Debian DSA-022-1 : exmh - local insecure tempfile creation

Former versions of the exmh program used /tmp for storing temporary files. No checks were made to ensure that nobody placed a symlink with the same name in /tmp in the meantime and thus was vulnerable to a symlink attack. This could lead to a malicious local user being able to overwrite any file...

Debian DSA-037-1 : Athena Widget replacement libraries - insecure tempfile handling

It has been reported that the AsciiSrc and MultiSrc widget in the Athena widget library handle temporary files insecurely. Joey Hess has ported the bugfix from XFree86 to these Xaw replacements libraries. The fixes are available in nextaw 0.5.1-34potato1, xaw3d 1.3-6.9potato1, and xaw95...

mysql -- mysqlhotcopy insecure temporary file creation

According to Christian Hammers: mysqlhotcopy created temporary files in /tmp which had predictable filenames and such could be used for a tempfile run attack. Jeroen van Wolffelaar is credited with discovering the issue...

Solaris 2.6 (x86) : 115564-01

SunOS 5.6x86: ed creates tempfiles in an insecure manner. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Nov/25/03 %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated as the associated patch is not currently a recommended security fix. Disabled on 2011/10/24. C Tenable Network Security,...

Solaris 7 (sparc) : 115565-01

SunOS 5.7: ed creates tempfiles in an insecure manner. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Nov/25/03 %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated as the associated patch is not currently a recommended security fix. Disabled on 2011/10/24. C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

The ScrollKeeper Root Trap

Release date : September 2 2002 Author : Spybreak [email protected] Package : Scrollkeeper Version : 0.3.4, 0.3.11 Severity : Medium to High Vendor homepage : scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net Status : vendor contacted Problem : Insecure creation of tempfiles in /tmp Local : yes Remote : no 1...

[SECURITY] [DSA 050-1] New version sendfile fix local root exploit

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 050-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze April 20, 2001 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : sendfile...

[SECURITY] [DSA 037-1] New versions of Athena Widget replacement libraries available

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[SECURITY] [DSA 038-1] New version of sgml-tools available

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-038-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze March 8, 2001 -...

[SECURITY] [DSA 038-1] New version of sgml-tools available

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-038-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze March 8, 2001 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : sgml-tools...

[SECURITY] [DSA 037-1] New versions of Athena Widget replacement libraries available

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-037-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze March 7, 2001 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : nextaw, xaw3d,...