From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue Nov 11 2008 - 18:24:05 CST

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TITLE:
WIMS "account.sh" Insecure Temporary Files

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32671

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32671/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
WIMS 3.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/12356/

DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in WIMS, which can be exploited by
malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated
privileges.

The security issue is caused due to the "bin/account.sh" script using
temporary files in an insecure manner. This can be exploited to erase
the content of arbitrary files via symlink attacks.

The security issue affects version 3.64. Other versions may also be
affected.

SOLUTION:
Restrict local access to trusted users only.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by Dmitry E. Oboukhov in a Debian bug report.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496387

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