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FLIM Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA11529
Release Date: 2004-05-03
Popularity: 7,492 views

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

Software:FLIM 1.x

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Description:
Tatsuya Kinoshita has reported a vulnerability in FLIM, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to take certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to insecure creation of temporary files. This can be exploited via a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running Emacs and FLIM.

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