From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon May 23 2005 - 03:23:07 CDT

• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Bist Du interessiert an einem neuen Job in IT-Sicherheit?

Secunia hat zwei freie Stellen als Junior und Senior Spezialist in IT-
Sicherheit:
http://secunia.com/secunia_vacancies/

----------------------------------------------------------------------

TITLE:
Gentoo webapp-config Insecure Temporary File Creation

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15445

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15445/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/339/

DESCRIPTION:
Eric Romang has reported a vulnerability in webapp-config, which can
be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions
with escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to temporary files being created
insecurely in "fn_show_postinst()". This can be exploited via symlink
attacks to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of
the user running the webapp-config tool.

SOLUTION:
Update to "net-www/webapp-config-1.10-r14" or later.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Eric Romang

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Eric Romang:
http://www.zataz.net/adviso/webapp-config-05182005.txt

----------------------------------------------------------------------

About:
This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help
everybody keeping their systems up to date against the latest
vulnerabilities.

Subscribe:
http://secunia.com/secunia_security_advisories/

Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.)
http://secunia.com/about_secunia_advisories/

Please Note:
Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by
clicking the link.
Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories.
Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only
use those supplied by the vendor.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Unsubscribe: Secunia Security Advisories

----------------------------------------------------------------------

• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]