From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue Jan 13 2004 - 07:39:31 CST

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TITLE:
cstrings Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA10605

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://www.secunia.com/advisories/10605/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
cstrings 2.x

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in cstrings, which potentially can
be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on
a vulnerable system with escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to insecure creation of a temporary
file. This can be exploited via symlink attacks to create or
overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of a user executing
cstrings.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.3.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/cstrings/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/cstrings/CHANGES

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