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cstrings Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA10605
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Release Date:
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2004-01-13
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Popularity:
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4,781 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: | cstrings 2.x
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in cstrings, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to insecure creation of a temporary file. This can be exploited via symlink attacks to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of a user executing cstrings.
Solution:
Update to version 2.3.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/cstrings/
Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by vendor.
Original Advisory:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/cstrings/CHANGES
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