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teTeX Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA13957
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Release Date:
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2005-01-24
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Popularity:
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6,312 views
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Critical:
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Highly critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Unpatched
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| Software: | teTeX 2.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2004-0888
CVE-2004-0889
CVE-2004-1125
CVE-2005-0064
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities has been reported in teTeX, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system and by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges.
For more information:
SA12917
SA13602
SA13903
A vulnerability also exists in the way the xdvizilla script creates temporary files. This can be exploited via symlink attacks to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running the vulnerable script.
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:
Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena
Original Advisory:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200501-31.xml
Other References:
SA12917:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12917/
SA13602:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13602/
SA13903:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13903/
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