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IMWheel Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA12349
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Release Date:
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2004-08-23
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Last Update:
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2004-08-30
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Popularity:
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4,792 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
DoS
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | IMWheel 1.x
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Description:
I)ruid has reported a vulnerability in IMWheel, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges or cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to a race condition and insecure creation of a temporary file ("/tmp/imwheel.pid") used for managing running imwheel processes.
Successful exploitation may result in a DoS against another user, prevent active processes from being killed, or append data to arbitrary files.
The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.0.0pre11. Other versions may also be affected.
Solution:
Update to version 1.0.0pre12.
http://imwheel.sourceforge.net/
Provided and/or discovered by:
I)ruid, Computer Academic Underground.
Changelog:
2004-08-30: Vendor issues fixed version.
Original Advisory:
http://www.caughq.org/advisories/CAU-2004-0002.txt
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