From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Dec 23 2004 - 07:05:35 CST

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TITLE:
Docbook-to-Man Insecure Temporary File Creation

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA13642

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13642/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Docbook-to-Man
http://secunia.com/product/4455/

DESCRIPTION:
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña has reported a vulnerability in
Docbook-to-Man, 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 the docbook-to-man.sh script
creating temporary files insecurely. This can be exploited via
symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of
the user running the vulnerable script.

SOLUTION:
Grant only trusted users access to affected systems.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña

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