---------------------------------------------------------------------- Are you missing: SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: Critical: Impact: Where: within the advisory below? This is now part of the Secunia commercial solutions. Click here to learn more about our commercial solutions: http://secunia.com/advisories/business_solutions/ Click here to trial our solutions: http://secunia.com/advisories/try_vi/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Coccinelle Insecure Temporary File Creation SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA35012 VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/35012/ DESCRIPTION: A security issue has been discovered in Coccinelle, 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 e.g. overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running spatch. The security issue is confirmed in version 0.1.7. Other versions may also be affected. SOLUTION: Restrict access to trusted users only. Define output files using the "-o" option. PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: Eugeniy Meshcheryakov ORIGINAL ADVISORY: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/c/coccinelle/coccinelle_0.1.7.deb-3/changelog ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/advisories/secunia_security_advisories/ Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.) http://secunia.com/advisories/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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------