---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bist Du interessiert an einem neuen Job in IT-Sicherheit? Secunia hat zwei freie Stellen als Junior und Senior Spezialist in IT- Sicherheit: http://secunia.com/secunia_vacancies/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: UMN Gopher Insecure Temporary File Creation SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA16275 VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/16275/ CRITICAL: Less critical IMPACT: Privilege escalation WHERE: Local system SOFTWARE: UMN Gopher 3.x http://secunia.com/product/1860/ UMN Gopher 2.x http://secunia.com/product/1859/ DESCRIPTION: John Goerzen has reported a vulnerability in gopher, 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 "/tmp" by "gopher.c". This can be exploited via symlink attacks to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running the affected application. The vulnerability affects versions prior to 3.0.8. SOLUTION: Update to version 3.0.8 or later. PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: John Goerzen ORIGINAL ADVISORY: Debian: http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-770 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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%40packetstormsecurity.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------