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DGen Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA12214
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Release Date:
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2004-08-04
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Popularity:
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6,009 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Unpatched
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| Software: | DGen 1.x
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Description:
Joey Hess has reported a vulnerability in DGen, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges.
The problem is that temporary files are created insecurely in the "/tmp" folder when decompressing ROMs. This can be exploited via symlink attacks to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking DGen.
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