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XWine Insecure Temporary File Handling and Configuration File Permissions
Secunia Advisory: SA29125
Release Date: 2008-02-29
Last Update: 2008-03-05
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Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:XWine 1.x

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Description:
Steve Kemp has reported two security issues in XWine, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges.

1) The temporary file "/tmp/temporaire" is used in an insecure manner. This can be exploited to e.g. truncate arbitrary files with the privileges of a user running xwine via symlink attacks.

2) The application sets insecure permissions for the configuration file "/etc/wine/config". This can potentially be exploited to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of a user running wine by e.g. changing certain configuration settings.

The vulnerabilities are reported in 1.0.1-1.1. Other versions may also be affected.

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