Security Advisory SA9140 - ImageMagick Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA9140

ImageMagick Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA9140

Release Date

2003-06-30

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Privilege escalation

Where

Local system

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

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Operating System

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0

Software:

ImageMagick 5.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2003-0455 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

Debian has reported a vulnerability in ImageMagick, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to take certain actions on a vulnerable system with the privileges of another user.

The problem is that the libmagick library may create temporary files insecurely. This can be exploited to to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack if a user invokes a program linked to this library.

Solution
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Original Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-331

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