From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Oct 11 2004 - 03:35:35 CDT

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TITLE:
GNU gettext Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA12774

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12774/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
GNU gettext 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/4027/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to temporary files being created
insecurely. This can be exploited via symlink attacks to overwrite or
create arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running
gettext.

SOLUTION:
Grant only trusted users access to affected systems.

Updated packages are available for various Linux distributions.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
First reported in a Trustix advisory.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2004/0050/

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