From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue May 04 2004 - 02:32:58 CDT

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TITLE:
ipmenu Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA11526

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/11526/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
ipmenu 0.0.x

DESCRIPTION:
Akira Yoshiyama has discovered a vulnerability in ipmenu, which can
be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on
a system with escalated privileges.

The temporary file "ipmenu.log" is created insecurely in the "/tmp"
folder. This can potentially be exploited via symlink attacks to
overwrite and create arbitrary files with "root" privileges.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 0.0.3. Other versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Grant only trusted users access to affected systems.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Akira Yoshiyama

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