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Debian lintian Insecure Temporary File Deletion Security Issue
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA13771
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Release Date:
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2005-01-10
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Popularity:
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9,148 views
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Critical:
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Not 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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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
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Secunia CVSS-2 Score:
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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.
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