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Heartbeat Multiple Insecure Temporary File Creation
Secunia Advisory: SA16039
Release Date: 2005-07-12
Last Update: 2005-07-19
Popularity: 7,204 views

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

Software:Heartbeat 1.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Eric Romang has reported a vulnerability in heartbeat, 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 several temporary files being created insecurely in "/tmp" by "cts/CTStests.py.in", "heartbeat/lib/BasicSanityCheck.in" and "lib/stonith/meatclient.c". This can be exploited via symlink attacks to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running the affected application.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions 1.2.3 and prior.

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