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TITLE:
Wine winelauncher.in Insecure Temporary File Creation

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA16352

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16352/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Wine
http://secunia.com/product/5498/

DESCRIPTION:
Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena has reported a vulnerability in wine,
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 a temporary file being created
insecurely in "/tmp" by winelauncher.in under certain error
conditions. 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 20050725. Other
versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Grant only trusted users access to affected systems.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena

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