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Secunia Advisory SA28657

Novell ZENworks Patch Management Insecure Temporary Files
Secunia Advisory SA28657
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Release Date 2008-02-06
   
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Manipulation of data
Privilege escalation
Where Local system
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
Novell ZENworks Patch Management 6.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2008-0525 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

Novell has acknowledged two security issues in ZENworks Patch Management, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to truncate arbitrary files and to gain escalated privileges.

For more information:
SA28665

The security issues are reported in ZPM Update Agent for Linux/Unix/Mac 6.4102, 6.3450, and 6.2094. Other versions may also be affected.


Solution
Apply patches. See the vendor's advisory for details.

Provided and/or discovered by
Originally reported in PatchLink Update Client by Larry W. Cashdollar.

Original Advisory
https://secure-support.novell.com/KanisaPlatform/Publishing/18/3908994_f.SAL_Public.html

Other references
Further details available in Customer Area

Deep Links
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