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Rootkit Hunter Insecure Temporary File Creation
Secunia Advisory: SA15127
Release Date: 2005-04-27
Last Update: 2005-05-04
Popularity: 7,085 views

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

Software:Rootkit Hunter 1.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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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.

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