Design/Logic Flaw

rpcbind 0.2.0 does not properly validate 1 /tmp/portmap.xdr and 2 /tmp/rpcbind.xdr, which can be created by an attacker before the daemon is started...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-18398

Xfce Thunar 1.6.15, when Xfce 4.12 is used, mishandles the IBus-Unikey input method for file searches within File Manager, leading to an out-of-bounds read and SEGV. This could potentially be exploited by an arbitrary local user who creates files in /tmp before the victim uses this input method...

CVE-2018-18398

Xfce Thunar 1.6.15, when Xfce 4.12 is used, mishandles the IBus-Unikey input method for file searches within File Manager, leading to an out-of-bounds read and SEGV. This could potentially be exploited by an arbitrary local user who creates files in /tmp before the victim uses this input method...

Insecure /Tmp File Handling

Salt handles /tmp files through salt/modules/chef.py insecurely. This may allow attackers to replace the file with a malicious file...

Insecure /tmp File Handling

Salt handles /tmp files through salt/modules/serverdensitydevice.py insecurely. This may allow attackers to replace the file with a malicious file...

Design/Logic Flaw

Mozilla Firefox before 34.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.3, and Thunderbird before 31.3 on Apple OS X 10.10 omit a CoreGraphics disable-logging action that is needed by jemalloc-based applications, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading /tmp files, as demonstrated by...

[oss-security] CVE request: multiple /tmp races in ppc64-diag

Just quoting from our bug report: As noted in the SUSE bug report, numerous /tmp race conditions exist in ppc64-diag, in particular: rtaserrd/diagsupport.c:233: char command="/usr/bin/find /proc/device-tree -name status -print /tmp/getdtfiles"; rtaserrd/diagsupport.c:241: fp1 =...

KLA10169 WLF vulnerability in Emacs

An unspecified vulnerability was found in GNU Emacs. By exploiting this vulnerability malicious users can overwrite arbitrary tmp files. This vulnerability can be exploited locally via a symlink attack. Original advisories - Related products GNU-Emacs CVE list CVE-2014-3424 warning CVE-2014-3423...

CVE-2012-3537

The Crowbar Ohai plugin chef/cookbooks/ohai/files/default/plugins/crowbar.rb in the Deployer Barclamp in Crowbar, possibly 1.4 and earlier, allows local users to execute arbitrary shell commands via vectors related to "insecure handling of tmp files" and predictable file names...

Fedora 17 : iproute-3.2.0-3.fc17 (2012-2818)

Address dangerous /tmp files security issue 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...

Fedora 15 : fail2ban-0.8.4-27.fc15 (2011-5135)

fail2ban used predictable /tmp files which a local user can allocate before fail2ban does. All tmp files have been moved to /var/lib/fail2ban. This also helps with selinux policies. Another security related fix is that fail2ban defaulted to gamin which conflicts with selinux, so users had to...

Fedora 13 : gource-0.24-3.fc13 (2010-6703)

Randomize name for files created in /tmp 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. %NASLMINLEVEL...

CVE-2008-5703

gpsdrive aka gpsdrive-scripts 2.10pre4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the a /tmp/.smswatch or b /tmp/gpsdrivepos temporary file, related to 1 examples/gpssmswatch and 2 src/splash.c, different vectors than CVE-2008-4959 and CVE-2008-5380...

CVE-2008-4984

scratchbox2 1.99.0.24 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/dpkg..tmp, b /tmp/missingdeps., and c /tmp/sb2-pkg-chk.$tstamp. temporary files, related to the 1 dpkg-checkbuilddeps and 2 sb2-check-pkg-mappings scripts...

CVE-2008-4987

xastir 1.9.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the a /tmp/ldconfig.tmp, b /tmp/ldconf.tmp, and c /tmp/ld.so.conf temporary files, related to the 1 get-maptools.sh and 2 getshapelib.sh scripts...

CVE-2008-4987

xastir 1.9.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the a /tmp/ldconfig.tmp, b /tmp/ldconf.tmp, and c /tmp/ld.so.conf temporary files, related to the 1 get-maptools.sh and 2 getshapelib.sh scripts...

CVE-2008-4960

impose in impose+ 0.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on 1 /tmp/-tmp.ps and 2 /tmp/bboxx- temporary files...

[Full-disclosure] capi4hylafax insecure manipulation with tmp files

capi4hylafax suite http://freshmeat.net/projects/capi4hylafax/ is addon for hylafax fax server http://www.hylafax.org/ vulnerable: capi4hylafax-01.03.00 /probably others/ in capi4hylafax-01.03.00/src/faxrecv/faxrecv.cpp : ifdef GENERATEDEBUGSFFDATAFILE dwarning DebugSffDataFile == 0; if...

HP-UX PHCO_29697 : HP-UX Running shar(1), Local Execution of Arbitrary Code (HPSBUX00304 SSRT3639 rev.2)

s700800 11.04 VVOS shar1 cumulative patch : shar1 creates tmp files insecurely. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and patch checks in this plugin were extracted from HP patch PHCO29697. The text itself is copyright C Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P...

/bin/ksh creates insecure tmp files

Recently I reported that, similarly to the recently discussed tcsh vulnerability, the Bourne shell /bin/sh creates temporary files in an insecure way: http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&[email protected] At the time I also tested the Korn...