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Debian update for eroaster
Secunia Advisory: SA9455
Release Date: 2003-08-06
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Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Debian GNU/Linux 3.0

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Debian has issued an update for eroaster to fix a vulnerability allowing malicious users to overwrite arbitrary files.

The problem is that eroaster creates a temporary lockfile in an insecure manner. This allows malicious users to overwrite arbitrary files which the user running eroaster got write access to.

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