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Berkeley Automounter Suite of Utilities "expn" Insecure Temporary File
Secunia Advisory: SA29144
Release Date: 2008-02-29
Popularity: 4,803 views

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

Software:Berkeley Automounter Suite of Utilities (am-utils) 6.x

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Description:
A security issue has been reported in Berkely Automounter Suite of Utilities (am-utils), which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges.

The security issue is caused due to the "expn" script creating temporary files in an insecure manner. This can be exploited to e.g. overwrite arbitrary files with the permissions of another user via symlink attacks.

This is related to:
SA8797

The security issue is reported in version 6.1.5. Other versions may also be affected.

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