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TITLE:
emacspeak Insecure Temporary Files

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31880

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CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
emacspeak 2x.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/19892/

DESCRIPTION:
Some security issues have been reported in emacspeak, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with
escalated privileges.

The security issues are caused due to various scripts using temporary
files in an insecure manner. This can be exploited via symlink attacks
to e.g. overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user
running the script.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the SCM repository.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by Dmitry E. Oboukhov in a Debian bug report.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496431

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