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GForge Insecure Temporary Files
Secunia Advisory: SA27586
Release Date: 2007-11-08
Last Update: 2008-05-16
Popularity: 3,381 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Manipulation of data
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Workaround

Software:GForge 3.x
GForge 4.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-3921


Description:
Steve Kemp has reported a security issue in GForge, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to truncate arbitrary files.

The security issue is caused due to temporary files being handled in an insecure manner. This can be exploited via symlink attacks to truncate files with the privileges of the "gforge" user.

The security issue is reported in version 4.5.14. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Fixed in the SVN repository.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Steve Kemp, Debian Security Audit Project

Changelog:
2008-05-16: Updated "Solution" section.

Original Advisory:
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1402


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