From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Feb 14 2005 - 05:07:58 CST

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TITLE:
KDE kdelibs dcopidlng Script Insecure Temporary File Creation

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14254

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14254/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
KDE 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/219/

DESCRIPTION:
Davide Madrisan has reported a vulnerability in KDE kdelibs, which
can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions
with escalated privileges on a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to the dcopidlng script creating
temporary files insecurely. This can be exploited via symlink attacks
to create or overwrite arbitrary files on the system with the
privileges of the user invoking the vulnerable script.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 3.3.2. Other versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
A fix is available in the CVS repository.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Davide Madrisan

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97608

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