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[SA13957] teTeX Multiple Vulnerabilities

From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Jan 24 2005 - 08:08:54 CST

TITLE:
teTeX Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA13957

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13957/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation, System access

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
teTeX 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/4551/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities has been reported in teTeX, which potentially
can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system
and by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a
vulnerable system with escalated privileges.

For more information:
SA12917
SA13602
SA13903

A vulnerability also exists in the way the xdvizilla script creates
temporary files. This can be exploited via symlink attacks to create
or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running
the vulnerable script.

SOLUTION:
Secunia is currently not aware of an official updated version, which
addresses the vulnerability.

Updated packages have been issued by some Linux vendors.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200501-31.xml

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA12917:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12917/

SA13602:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13602/

SA13903:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13903/

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