teTeX 1.0.7 Filters Temporary File Race Condition Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2974/info teTeX is a TeX distribution for UNIX compatible systems. A race condition vulnerability exists in the temporary file handling method used by some teTeX filters. The problem exists because in some cases temporary...

IM-Switch Insecure Temporary File Handling Symbolic Link Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10717/info IM-Switch Insecure Temporary File Handling Symbolic Link VulnerabilityIt is reported that im-switch is prone to a local insecure temporary file handling symbolic link vulnerability. This issue is due to a desig...

Slackware Linux 3.4 netconfig temporary file Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81/info netconfig creates the file /tmp/tmpmsg insecurely and follows symbolic links. An attacker can create a symbolic link from /tmp/tmpmsg to any file and wait for root to run the program. This will clober the target...

Opera 7.x Relative Path Directory Traversal File Corruption Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9279/info Opera is prone to a file corruption vulnerability. This issue is exposed when a user is presented with a file dialog, which will cause the creation of a temporary file. It is possible to specify a relative path ...

IBM AIX 4.2.1 portmir Buffer Overflow & Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerabilities

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/385/info AIX version 4.2.1 introduced a new command titled 'portmir'. This new program had two notable vulnerabilites. First it contained a buffer overflow which allowed malicious users to obtain root privileges. Secondly...

Slackware Linux 3.4 pkgtool temporary file Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82/info pkgtool creates the file /tmp/reply insecurely and follows symbolic links. An attacker can create a symbolic link from /tmp/reply to any file and wait for root to run the program. This will clober the target file...

Firefox 3.5.3 - Local Download Manager Temp File Creation

No description provided by source. / getunique.c AKA Mozilla Firefox 3.5.3 Local Download Manager Exploit Jeremy Brown [email protected] // jbrownsec.blogspot.com // krakowlabs.com 10.28.2009 When downloading files through Firefox and choosing the Open with option, Firefox will create a...

Samsung ml85p Printer Driver 1.0 Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability (2)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3008/info ml85p is a Linux driver for Samsung ML-85G series printers. It may be bundled with distributions of Ghostscript. ml85p does not check for symbolic links when creating image output files. These files are created ...

MySQL 4.x CREATE FUNCTION Arbitrary libc Code Execution

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12781/info MySQL is reported prone to multiple vulnerabilities that can be exploited by a remote authenticated attacker. The following individual issues are reported: - Insecure temporary file-creation vulnerability...

IBM AIX eNetwork Firewall 3.2/3.3 Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerabilities

No description provided by source. soure: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/287/info IBM's eNetwork Firewall for AIX contains a number of vulnerability in scripts which manipulate files insecurely. When fwlsuser script is run it creates a temporary file called /tmp/fwlsuser.PID where PID is the...

CFME: SSH Utility insecure tmp file creation leading to code execution as root

The 1 shellexec function in lib/util/MiqSshUtilV1.rb and 2 tempcmdfile function in lib/util/MiqSshUtilV2.rb in Red Hat CloudForms 3.0 Management Engine CFME before 5.2.4.2 allow local users to execute arbitrary commands via a symlink attack on a temporary file with a predictable name...

PHP 5.5.x < 5.5.14 Multiple Vulnerabilities

According to its banner, the version of PHP 5.5.x installed on the remote host is a version prior to 5.5.14. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities : - Boundary checking errors exist related to the Fileinfo extension, Composite Document Format CDF handling and the functions...

PHP 5.4.x < 5.4.30 Multiple Vulnerabilities

According to its banner, the version of PHP 5.4.x installed on the remote host is a version prior to 5.4.30. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities : - Boundary checking errors exist related to the Fileinfo extension, Composite Document Format CDF handling and the functions...

CXF: Large invalid content could cause temporary space to fill

It was found that when a large invalid SOAP message was processed by Apache CXF, it could be saved to a temporary file in the /tmp directory. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted SOAP message that, when processed by an application using Apache CXF, would use an excessive amount of dis...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2.4 update

Updated packages that provide Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2.4 and fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Moderate security...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2.4 update

Updated packages that provide Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2.4 and fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Moderate security...

CXF: Large invalid content could cause temporary space to fill

It was found that when a large invalid SOAP message was processed by Apache CXF, it could be saved to a temporary file in the /tmp directory. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted SOAP message that, when processed by an application using Apache CXF, would use an excessive amount of dis...

CXF: Large invalid content could cause temporary space to fill

It was found that when a large invalid SOAP message was processed by Apache CXF, it could be saved to a temporary file in the /tmp directory. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted SOAP message that, when processed by an application using Apache CXF, would use an excessive amount of dis...

[oss-security] CVE request: PHP configure script and Lynis tool /tmp/ issues reported on full disclosure

Good morning, http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Jun/21 reports two temporary file issues. The first is in PHP's configure script: char filename = "/tmp/phpglibccheck"; Red Hat bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showbug.cgi?id=1104978 The second issue is Lynis writing a predictable file to...

openSUSE Security Update : icedtea-web (openSUSE-SU-2014:0310-1)

icedtea-web was updated to version 1.4.2 bnc864364, fixing various bugs and a security issues : - Dialogs center on screen before becoming visible - Support for u45 new manifest attributes Application-Name - Custom applet permission policies panel in itweb-settings control panel - Plugin - PR1271...