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Secunia Advisory SA12008

Oracle 10g Installer Insecure Temporary File Creation
Secunia Advisory SA12008
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Release Date 2004-07-05
   
Popularity 12,264 views
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Criticality level Not criticalNot critical
Impact Privilege escalation
Where Local system
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Unpatched
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia VIM
   
Software:
Oracle Database 10.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
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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