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BMV Insecure Temporary File Creation
Secunia Advisory: SA13793
Release Date: 2005-01-12
Popularity: 6,443 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:BMV 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2003-0014


Description:
Peter Samuelson has reported a vulnerability in BMV, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to temporary files being created insecurely and can be exploited via symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files on the system.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.2. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Secunia is currently not aware of an official updated version, which addresses the vulnerability.

Updated packages have been issued by some Linux vendors.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Peter Samuelson

Original Advisory:
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-633


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