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Oracle 10g Installer Insecure Temporary File Creation
Secunia Advisory: SA12008
Release Date: 2004-07-05
Popularity: 9,962 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:Oracle Database 10.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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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.

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