TITLE:
BMV Insecure Temporary File Creation

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA13793

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13793/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
BMV 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/4500/

DESCRIPTION:
Peter Samuelson has reported a vulnerability in BMV, 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 and can be exploited via symlink attacks to overwrite
arbitrary files on the system.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.2. Other versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Secunia is currently not aware of an official updated version, which
addresses the vulnerability.

Updated packages have been issued by some Linux vendors.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Peter Samuelson

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-633

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