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remstats Insecure Temporary File Creation and Arbitrary Command Execution
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA14810
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Release Date:
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2005-04-05
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Popularity:
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5,526 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
System access
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Where:
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From local network
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Solution Status:
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Unpatched
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| Software: | remstats 1.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2005-0387
CVE-2005-0388
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Description:
Jens Steube has reported two vulnerabilities in remstats, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges, and by malicious people to potentially compromise a vulnerable system.
1) Temporary files are created insecurely when processing uptime data. This can be exploited via symlink attacks to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running remstats.
2) An input validation error in the remoteping service can be exploited to execute arbitrary commands.
Solution:
Filter access to the remoteping service, and grant only trusted users access to affected systems.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Jens Steube
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