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Rootkit Hunter Insecure Temporary File Creation
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA15127
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Release Date:
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2005-04-27
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Last Update:
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2005-05-04
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Popularity:
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5,787 views
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Critical:
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Less 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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| Software: | Rootkit Hunter 1.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2005-1270
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Description:
Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen and Tavis Ormandy has reported some vulnerabilities in Rootkit Hunter, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges.
The vulnerabilities are caused due to temporary files being created insecurely. This can be exploited via symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running the "check_update.sh" or "rkhunter" script.
Solution:
Update to version 1.2.5.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen and Tavis Ormandy, Gentoo Linux Security Team.
Changelog:
2005-05-04: Updated "Solution" section.
Original Advisory:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200504-25.xml
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