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Plait Insecure Temporary Files
Secunia Advisory: SA31617
Release Date: 2008-09-02
Last Update: 2008-09-29
Popularity: 1,842 views

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

Software:Plait 1.x

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Description:
Some security issues have been reported in Plait, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges.

The security issues are caused due to the application creating temporary files in an insecure manner. This can be exploited to overwrite arbitrary files with escalated privileges via symlink attacks.

The security issues are reported in versions prior to 1.6.2.

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