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TITLE:
Bournal Insecure Temporary Files Security Issue

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA38554

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/38554/

DESCRIPTION:
Secunia Research has discovered a security issue in Bournal, which
can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions
with escalated privileges.

The script uses temporary files in an insecure manner, which can be
exploited to e.g. overwrite arbitrary files via symlink attacks when
running the update check via the "--hack_the_gibson" parameter.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.4.1, which removes the vulnerable functionality.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Secunia Research

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2010-6/

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