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Secunia Advisory SA9455

Debian update for eroaster

Secunia Advisory

SA9455

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Release Date

2003-08-06

Popularity

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Privilege escalation

Where

Local system

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Approve distribution

Available in Customer Area

Operating System

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0

Secunia CVSS Score

Available in Customer Area

CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2003-0656 CVSS available in Customer Area

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.

Solution
Updated packages:
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Original Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-366

Deep Links
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Secunia Advisory SA9455

Debian update for eroaster

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