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X-CD-Roast Insecure File Creation Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA10162
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Release Date:
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2003-11-07
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Popularity:
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6,218 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | X-CD-Roast 0.x
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in X-CD-Roast, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to overwrite arbitrary files with escalated privileges.
The problem is that certain files are created insecurely, which can be exploited via symlink attacks.
Solution:
Update to version 0.98alpha15.
http://www.xcdroast.org/#download
Provided and/or discovered by:
Stefan Nordhausen
Original Advisory:
http://www.xcdroast.org/xcdr098/changelog-a15.html
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