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geo-* Insecure Temporary Files
Secunia Advisory: SA31655
Release Date: 2008-08-29
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Critical:
Not critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:geo-*

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

The security issue is caused due to various scripts (e.g. geo-code.sh and mngca-newmap) handling temporary files in an insecure manner. This can be exploited via symlink attacks to e.g. overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running the script.

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