Secunia Security Advisory - Colin Phipps has reported a vulnerability in catdoc, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges.
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TITLE:
catdoc "xlsview" Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA13021
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CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Privilege escalation
WHERE:
Local system
SOFTWARE:
catdoc 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/4187/
DESCRIPTION:
Colin Phipps has reported a vulnerability in catdoc, 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 temporary files being created
insecurely in xlsview. This can be exploited via symlink attacks to
overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running
catdoc.
SOLUTION:
Grant only trusted users access to affected systems.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Colin Phipps
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