CVE-2012-1088

iproute2 before 3.3.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file used by 1 configure or 2 examples/dhcp-client-script...

PT-2014-2216 · Iproute2 · Iproute2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: iproute2 versions prior to 3.3.0 Description: The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file used by certain scripts. This can be exploited through the configure script or the...

CVE-2013-6728

The charting component in IBM WebSphere Dashboard Framework WDF 6.1.5 and 7.0.1 allows remote attackers to view or delete image files by leveraging incorrect security constraints for a temporary directory...

CVE-2013-6728

The charting component in IBM WebSphere Dashboard Framework WDF 6.1.5 and 7.0.1 allows remote attackers to view or delete image files by leveraging incorrect security constraints for a temporary directory...

Updated varnish packages fix CVE-2013-4484 and correct service behaviour

Updated varnish packages fix security vulnerabilities: Varnish before 3.0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service child-process crash and temporary caching outage via a GET request with trailing whitespace characters and no URI CVE-2013-4484. Also, the services have been converted...

CVE-2014-1876

The unpacker::redirectstdio function in unpack.cpp in unpack200 in OpenJDK 6, 7, and 8; Oracle Java SE 5.0u61, 6u71, 7u51, and 8; JRockit R27.8.1 and R28.3.1; and Java SE Embedded 7u51 does not securely create temporary files when a log file cannot be opened, which allows local users to overwrite...

Updated icedtea-web packages fix CVE-2013-6493

Updated icedtea-web packages fix security vulnerability: LiveConnect provides a gateway between the JavaScript engine in the web browser and Java applets. An insecure temporary file use flaw was found in the LiveConnect implementation in the IcedTea-Web browser plug-in. A malicious, local user...

GLSA-201402-10 : PulseAudio: Insecure temporary file usage

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201402-10 PulseAudio: Insecure temporary file usage The pamakesecuredir function in core-util.c does not handle temporary files securely. Impact : A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with th...

CVE-2014-1876

The unpacker::redirectstdio function in unpack.cpp in unpack200 in OpenJDK 6, 7, and 8; Oracle Java SE 5.0u61, 6u71, 7u51, and 8; JRockit R27.8.1 and R28.3.1; and Java SE Embedded 7u51 does not securely create temporary files when a log file cannot be opened, which allows local users to overwrite...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-1876

The unpacker::redirectstdio function in unpack.cpp in unpack200 in OpenJDK 6, 7, and 8; Oracle Java SE 5.0u61, 6u71, 7u51, and 8; JRockit R27.8.1 and R28.3.1; and Java SE Embedded 7u51 does not securely create temporary files when a log file cannot be opened, which allows local users to overwrite...

PulseAudio: Insecure temporary file usage

Background PulseAudio is a sound system for POSIX OSes. Description The pamakesecuredir function in core-util.c does not handle temporary files securely. Impact A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running the application...

Fedora 20 : flite-1.3-21.fc20 (2014-0579)

CVE-2014-0027 flite: insecure temporary file use Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues...

CVE-2013-4331

Light Display Manager aka LightDM 1.4.x before 1.4.3, 1.6.x before 1.6.2, and 1.7.x before 1.7.14 uses 0664 permissions for the temporary .Xauthority file, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the file...

Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize 2014

Now there is really great news for all the supporters of Former National Security Agency NSA contractor Edward Snowden, as he is nominated for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize by two Norwegian lawmakers. Snorre Valen and Baard Vegar Solhjell, parliamentarians from Norway’s Socialist Left Party said, “H...

CVE-2014-1831 CVE-2014-1832 rubygem-passenger: insecure use of temporary files

'Phusion Passenger 4.0.37 allows local users to write to certain files and directories via a symlink attack on 1 controlprocess.pid or a 2 generation- file. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-1831.'...

CVE-2014-1639

syncevo/installcheck-local.sh in syncevolution before 1.3.99.7 uses mktemp to create a safe temporary file but appends a suffix to the original filename and writes to this new filename, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the new filename...

CVE-2014-1604

The parser cache functionality in parsergenerator.py in RPLY aka python-rply before 0.7.1 allows local users to spoof cache data by pre-creating a temporary rply-.json file with a predictable name...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-1638

1 debian/postrm and 2 debian/localepurge.config in localepurge before 0.7.3.2 use tempfile to create a safe temporary file but appends a suffix to the original filename and writes to this new filename, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the new filename...

CVE-2014-1640

axiom-test.sh in axiom 20100701-1.1 uses tempfile to create a safe temporary file but appends a suffix to the original filename and writes to this new filename, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the new filename...

PYSEC-2014-17

The parser cache functionality in parsergenerator.py in RPLY aka python-rply before 0.7.1 allows local users to spoof cache data by pre-creating a temporary rply-.json file with a predictable name...