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ImageMagick Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA9140
Release Date: 2003-06-30
Popularity: 8,356 views

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

OS:Debian GNU/Linux 3.0

Software:ImageMagick 5.x

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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.

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