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Claws Mail sylprint.pl Insecure Temporary Files
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA27897
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Release Date:
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2007-12-03
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Last Update:
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2007-12-17
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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: | Claws Mail 3.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2007-6208 (Secunia mirror)
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Description:
A security issue has been reported in Claws Mail, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges.
The security issue is caused due to the sylprint.pl script using temporary files in an insecure manner. This can be exploited to overwrite or delete arbitrary files via symlink attacks.
The security issue is reported in version 3.1.0. Other versions may also be affected.
Solution:
Update to version 3.2.0.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Nico Golde, Debian
Changelog:
2007-12-04: Added CVE reference.
2007-12-06: Updated "Solution" section.
2007-12-17: Updated "Solution" section. Added link to vendor.
Original Advisory:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=454089
http://www.claws-mail.org/news.php
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