Security Advisory SA26536 - id3lib Insecure Temporary File Privilege Escalation

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Secunia Advisory SA26536

id3lib Insecure Temporary File Privilege Escalation

Secunia Advisory

SA26536

Release Date

2007-08-20

Last Update

2007-08-22

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Privilege escalation

Where

Local system

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Solution Status

Unpatched

Systems affected

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Remediation status

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Software:

id3lib 3.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2007-4460 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

Nikolaus Schulz has reported a security issue in id3lib, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The security issue is caused due to the "RenderV2ToFile()" function in src/tag_file.cpp 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 3.8.3. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Restrict access to trusted users only.

Provided and/or discovered by
Nikolaus Schulz.

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Original Advisory
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=438540

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