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Gfax Insecure Temporary Files Privileges Escalation Security Issue
Secunia Advisory: SA25937
Release Date: 2007-07-06
Popularity: 6,683 views

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

Software:Gfax 0.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Steve Kemp has reported a security issue in Gfax, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The security issue is caused due to the "delete_crontab_entry()" function in src/mgett_setup.c handling temporary files in an insecure manner. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary commands with escalated privileges (usually root user).

The security issue is reported in version 0.4.2. Other versions may also be affected.

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