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Secunia Security Advisory 23035

Secunia Security Advisory 23035
Posted Nov 20, 2006
Authored by Secunia | Site secunia.com

Secunia Security Advisory - A security issue has been reported in Kile, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain knowledge of certain information.

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Secunia Security Advisory 23035

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To improve our services to our customers, we have made a number of
additions to the Secunia Advisories and have started translating the
advisories to German.

The improvements will help our customers to get a better
understanding of how we reached our conclusions, how it was rated,
our thoughts on exploitation, attack vectors, and scenarios.

This includes:
* Reason for rating
* Extended description
* Extended solution
* Exploit code or links to exploit code
* Deep links

Read the full description:
http://corporate.secunia.com/products/48/?r=l

Contact Secunia Sales for more information:
http://corporate.secunia.com/how_to_buy/15/?r=l

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TITLE:
Kile Backup File Insecure File Permissions

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA23035

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23035/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Kile 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/12672/

DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in Kile, which can be exploited by
malicious, local users to gain knowledge of certain information.

The security issue is caused due to backup files being created with
default permissions even when the original file had more restrictive
permissions set. This can potentially disclose the contents of files
edited by other users.

The security issue is reported in versions prior to 1.9.3.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.9.3.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=464713

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About:
This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help
everybody keeping their systems up to date against the latest
vulnerabilities.

Subscribe:
http://secunia.com/secunia_security_advisories/

Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.)
http://secunia.com/about_secunia_advisories/


Please Note:
Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by
clicking the link.
Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories.
Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only
use those supplied by the vendor.

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