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Secunia Advisory SA12008

Oracle 10g Installer Insecure Temporary File Creation
Secunia Advisory SA12008
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2004-07-05
   
Popularity 12,672 views
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Criticality level Not criticalNot critical
Impact Privilege escalation
Where Local system
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Solution Status Unpatched
   
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Remediation status Secunia VIM
   
Software:
Oracle Database 10.x
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CVE Reference(s) No CVE references.
  

Description

Knud Erik Højgaard has reported a security issue in Oracle Database 10g, allowing malicious users to manipulate temporary files.

The problem is that certain files placed in "/tmp" are created using 777 permissions. This may allow malicious users to manipulate files during installation.

This has been reported in version 10g. Other versions may also be affected.


Solution
Do not install the product on a system with untrusted users.

Provided and/or discovered by
Knud Erik Højgaard

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