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Gentoo esearch Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA11991
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Release Date:
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2004-07-02
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Last Update:
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2004-07-14
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Popularity:
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7,358 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
DoS
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | Gentoo Linux
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Description:
Tavis Ormandy has discovered a vulnerability in esearch for Gentoo Linux, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to the "eupdatedb" utility creating the temporary file "/tmp/esearchdb.py.tmp" insecurely. This can be exploited via symlink attacks to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the utility.
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