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Eldav Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory:	SA9086	Advisory Toolbox: Issue ticket Save in to-do list Mark as handled Exploit information Download as PDF Review actions Add comment
Release Date:	2003-06-20
Popularity:	6,548 views

Critical:	Less critical
Impact:	Privilege escalation
Where:	Local system
Solution Status:	Vendor Patch

OS:	Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 Debian GNU/Linux unstable alias sid

Software:	Eldav 0.x

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CVE reference:	CVE-2003-0438

Description: Debian has reported a vulnerability in eldav, which can be exploited by malicious people to take certain actions on a system with escalated privileges. The problem is that insecure permissions are set on temporary files in "/tmp". This can be exploited via symlink attacks to create or overwrite arbitrary files on a system with the privileges of the user running emacs and eldav. Solution: Update to version 0.7.2: http://www.gohome.org/eldav/eldav-0.7.2.tar.gz Updated packages: -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody -- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updat.../eldav/eldav_0.0.20020411-1woody1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 592 9dd06517b53570a595d5c368924ceda1 http://security.debian.org/pool/updat...av/eldav_0.0.20020411-1woody1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 3814 c4400b418452e1aea9a115a2af82e1aa http://security.debian.org/pool/updat.../eldav/eldav_0.0.20020411.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 12319 3b62e4b9b05eb1c8ef27e9f5d3b98db2 Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updat...av/eldav_0.0.20020411-1woody1_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 15546 5dc5beca6a1c57b5a4b32968ebc07da4 -- Debian GNU/Linux unstable alias sid -- Fixed in version 0.7.2-1. Provided and/or discovered by: Tatsuya Kinoshita Original Advisory: http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-325

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