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ImageMagick Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA9140
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Release Date:
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2003-06-30
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Popularity:
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8,356 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
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| Software: | ImageMagick 5.x
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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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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