Description
silc daemon (silcd.c) in Secure Internet Live Conferencing (SILC) 1.0 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the silcd.[PID].stats temporary file.
References
- 16659 third-party-advisory
- http://www.zataz.net/adviso/silc-server-toolkit-06152005.txt
- 14716 vdb-entry
- 20050901 silc server and toolkit insecure temporary file creation mailing-list
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94587