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Secunia Advisory SA12127

Nessus "adduser" Race Condition Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA12127
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2004-07-22
Last Update 2005-02-15
   
Popularity 16,622 views
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Privilege escalation
Where Local system
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Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
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Software:
Nessus 2.x
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CVE Reference(s) CVE-2004-1445 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

Description

Cyrille Barthelemy has reported a vulnerability in Nessus, potentially allowing malicious users to escalate their privileges.

The problem is caused by a race condition in "nessus-adduser" if the user hasn't specified the environment variable "TMPDIR".

This has been reported to affect version 2.0.11. Prior versions may also be affected.


Solution
This has been fixed in version 2.0.12.
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Provided and/or discovered by
Cyrille Barthelemy

Changelog
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Original Advisory
http://www.nessus.org/nessus_2_0.html

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