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TITLE:
Fedora scanbuttond Insecure Temporary Files

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27847

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27847/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Fedora 7
http://secunia.com/product/15552/

DESCRIPTION:
Michal Jaegermann has reported a security issue in Fedora, which can
be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions
with escalated privileges.

The security issue is caused due to the buttonpressed.sh script from
the scanbuttond package using temporary files in an insecure manner.
This can be exploited via symlink attacks to overwrite or delete
arbitrary files with root privileges.

The security issue is reported in scanbuttond-0.2.3-10.fc7. Other
versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Restrict access to trusted users only.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Michal Jaegermann

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=383131

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