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Secunia Advisory SA32588

Rancid "getipacctg" Insecure Temporary Files
Secunia Advisory SA32588
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Release Date 2008-11-07
   
Popularity 1,800 view
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Privilege escalation
Where Local system
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Solution Status Unpatched
   
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Software:
Rancid 2.x
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CVE Reference(s) CVE-2008-4979 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description
A security issue has been reported in Rancid, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges.

The security issue is caused due to the "getipacctg" script using temporary files in an insecure manner. This can be exploited to delete or overwrite arbitrary files via symlink attacks.

The security issue is reported in version 2.3.1. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Restrict local access to trusted users only.

Provided and/or discovered by
Reported by Dmitry E. Oboukhov in a Debian bug report.

Original Advisory
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496426

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