Description
configvar in Caudium 1.4.12 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/roken#####.pike temporary file.
References
- [oss-security] 20081030 CVE requests: tempfile issues for aview, mgetty, openoffice, crossfire mailing-list
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
- caudium-configvar-symlink(44768) vdb-entry
- 30897 vdb-entry
- http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496404
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/caudium
- 31656 third-party-advisory