Trustix LVM Utilities Unspecified Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

BID:11290

Info

Trustix LVM Utilities Unspecified Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 11290
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-2004-0972
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Sep 30 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 12 2009 07:06AM
Credit: Trustix security engineers are credited with these discoveries.
Vulnerable: Redhat Linux 9.0 i386
Redhat Linux 7.3 i686
Redhat Linux 7.3 i386
Redhat Linux 7.3
Redhat Fedora Core1
LVM Logical Volume Management Utilities 1.0.8
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.1 x86_64
 + Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.1
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.0 AMD64
 + Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.0
+ Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 4.1 ppc
 + Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 4.1 ia64
 + Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 4.1 ia32
 LVM Logical Volume Management Utilities 1.0.7
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 9.2 amd64
 + Mandriva Linux Mandrake 9.2
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 9.2
+ Trustix Secure Enterprise Linux 2.0
+ Trustix Secure Enterprise Linux 2.0
+ Trustix Secure Linux 2.1
+ Trustix Secure Linux 2.1
+ Trustix Secure Linux 2.0
+ Trustix Secure Linux 2.0
+ Trustix Secure Linux 1.5
+ Trustix Secure Linux 1.5
LVM Logical Volume Management Utilities 1.0.4
+ Debian Linux 3.0 sparc
 + Debian Linux 3.0 s/390
 + Debian Linux 3.0 s/390
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ppc
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ppc
 + Debian Linux 3.0 mipsel
 + Debian Linux 3.0 mipsel
 + Debian Linux 3.0 mips
 + Debian Linux 3.0 mips
 + Debian Linux 3.0 m68k
 + Debian Linux 3.0 m68k
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ia-64
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ia-64
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ia-32
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ia-32
 + Debian Linux 3.0 hppa
 + Debian Linux 3.0 hppa
 + Debian Linux 3.0 arm
 + Debian Linux 3.0 arm
 + Debian Linux 3.0 alpha
 + Debian Linux 3.0 alpha
 LVM Logical Volume Management Utilities 1.0.1
+ MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 2.1 x86_64
 + MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 2.1
+ MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 2.1
Gentoo Linux
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Trustix LVM Utilities Unspecified Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

Trustix LVM Utilities are affected by an unspecified insecure temporary file creation vulnerability. This issue is likely due to a design error that causes the application to fail to verify a files existence before writing to it.

An attacker may leverage this issue to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of an unsuspecting user that activates the vulnerable application. Reportedly this issue is unlikely to facilitate privilege escalation.

Exploit / POC

Trustix LVM Utilities Unspecified Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

No exploit is required to leverage this issue.

Solution / Fix

Trustix LVM Utilities Unspecified Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

Solution:
Trustix Linux has released an advisory (TSL-2004-0050) along with fixes dealing with this issue. Please see the referenced advisory for more information.

Ubuntu has released an advisory (USN-15-1) to address this issue. Please see the referenced advisory for more information.

Debian has released advisory DSA 583-1 to address this issue. Please see the attached advisory for further details on obtaining and applying fixes.

Gentoo Linux has released advisory GLSA 200411-22 to address this issue. Users of affected packages are urged to execute the following commands with superuser privileges:
emerge --sync
emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-fs/lvm-user-1.0.7-r2"
Please see the referenced advisory for further information.

MandrakeSoft has issued an advisory (MDKSA-2004:144) along with patched upgrades. Please see the referenced advisory for more information.

Fedora Legacy has released security advisory FLSA:152842 addressing this issue for RedHat Linux 7.3 and 9, and for Fedora Core 1. Please see the referenced advisory for details on obtaining and applying the appropriate updates.


LVM Logical Volume Management Utilities 1.0.1

LVM Logical Volume Management Utilities 1.0.4

LVM Logical Volume Management Utilities 1.0.7

LVM Logical Volume Management Utilities 1.0.8

References

Trustix LVM Utilities Unspecified Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

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