TITLE: catdoc "xlsview" Privilege Escalation Vulnerability SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA13021 VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/13021/ CRITICAL: Less critical IMPACT: Privilege escalation WHERE: Local system SOFTWARE: catdoc 0.x http://secunia.com/product/4187/ DESCRIPTION: Colin Phipps has reported a vulnerability in catdoc, 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 temporary files being created insecurely in xlsview. This can be exploited via symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running catdoc. SOLUTION: Grant only trusted users access to affected systems. PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: Colin Phipps ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: Secunia Security Advisories http://secunia.com/sec_adv_unsubscribe/?email=packet@packetstormsecurity.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------