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Bug#318285: marked as done (CAN-2005-2240 symlink attack in xpvm.tcl)



Your message dated Tue, 14 Mar 2006 18:13:38 +0100
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and subject line Fixed in xpvm
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Package: xpvm
Severity: serious
Tags: security

According to http://secunia.com/advisories/16040:

  Eric Romang has reported a vulnerability in xpvm, 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 "/tmp/xpvm.trace.$user"
  being created insecurely by "src/xpvm.tcl". This can be exploited via symlink
  attacks to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user
  running the affected application.

This is CAN-2005-2240.

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see shy jo

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Version: 1.2.5-8

This bug has been fixed in the upload of 2005-09-04 by Matej Vela, but
was inadvertently reopened for sid. Closing the bug again with the right
version.


Thijs

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