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TITLE:
Plait Insecure Temporary Files

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31617

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31617/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Plait 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/19702/

DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in Plait, which can be exploited
by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated
privileges.

The security issue is caused due to the application creating
temporary files in an insecure manner. This can be exploited to
overwrite arbitrary files with escalated privileges via symlink
attacks.

The security issue is reported in versions prior to 1.6.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.6.

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Plait:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=147849&release_id=623154

Debian:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496381

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