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Bug 106185 - app-admin/gwcc: Insecure Temporary File Creation
Summary: app-admin/gwcc: Insecure Temporary File Creation
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 104566
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: http://secunia.com/advisories/16833/
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Reported: 2005-09-16 06:17 UTC by Jean-François Brunette (RETIRED)
Modified: 2005-09-16 06:56 UTC (History)
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Description Jean-François Brunette (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-09-16 06:17:57 UTC 
Description:
D1g1t4lLeech has reported a vulnerability in GWCC, 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 temporary file "gwcc_out.txt" being
created insecurely in "/tmp" by "perform_file_save()" when printing. This can be
exploited via symlink attacks to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the
privileges of the user running the affected application.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 0.9.8. Other versions may also be
affected.
Comment 1 Jean-François Brunette (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-09-16 06:25:24 UTC 
Version 0.9.8 is old: "JAN 21, 2002"
Comment 2 Romang 2005-09-16 06:38:45 UTC 
Hello,

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104566

Discovered by Gentoo security Scout the 2005-09-13

A true Leech

Regards.
Comment 3 Jean-François Brunette (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-09-16 06:56:50 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 104566 ***