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Debian lintian Insecure Temporary File Deletion Security Issue
Secunia Advisory:	SA13771	Advisory Toolbox: Issue ticket Save in to-do list Mark as handled Exploit information Download as PDF Review actions Add comment
Release Date:	2005-01-10
Popularity:	8,115 views

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

OS:	Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 Debian GNU/Linux unstable alias sid

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CVE reference:	CVE-2004-1000

Description: Jeroen van Wolffelaar has reported a security issue in lintian, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges. Temporary files are handled insecurely and can be exploited via symlink attacks combined with a race condition to remove arbitrary files or directories. Solution: Apply updated packages. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 -- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lintian/lintian_1.20.17.1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 505 03d54a4d67f1c784cbee0fdac29fd9d6 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lintian/lintian_1.20.17.1.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 198277 886c05fe72a348ca3db23856c59bf8af Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lintian/lintian_1.20.17.1_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 171384 bc968e0eeebad128e743d716e4bc10e7 -- Debian GNU/Linux unstable alias sid -- Fixed in version 1.23.6. Provided and/or discovered by: Jeroen van Wolffelaar Original Advisory: http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-630

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