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Eric Romang has discovered that GNU shtool insecurely creates temporary files with predictable filenames (CAN-2005-1751). On closer inspection, Gentoo Security discovered that the shtool temporary file, once created, was being reused insecurely (CAN-2005-1759).
Impact :
A local attacker could create symbolic links in the temporary files directory, pointing to a valid file somewhere on the filesystem.
When a GNU shtool script is executed, this would result in the file being overwritten with the rights of the user running the script, which could be the root user.
Workaround :
There is no known workaround at this time.
Max CVSS | 0 |
Min CVSS | 0 |
Total Count | 2 |
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