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TITLE:
geo-* Insecure Temporary Files

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31655

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31655/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
geo-*
http://secunia.com/product/19680/

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

The security issue is caused due to various scripts (e.g. geo-code.sh
and mngca-newmap) handling 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:
Restrict local access to trusted users only.

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496436

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