NetaTalk Unspecified Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

BID:11292

Info

NetaTalk Unspecified Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 11292
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-2004-0974
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Sep 30 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 12 2009 07:06AM
Credit: The individual or individuals responsible for the discovery of this issue is currently unknown; Trustix security engineers are credited with these discoveries.
Vulnerable: Turbolinux Turbolinux Workstation 8.0
Turbolinux Turbolinux Workstation 7.0
Turbolinux Turbolinux Server 8.0
Turbolinux Turbolinux Server 7.0
Redhat Fedora Core3
Redhat Fedora Core2
Netatalk Open Source Apple File Share Protocol Suite 1.6.4
+ Gentoo Linux 1.4
+ Gentoo Linux
+ Trustix Secure Enterprise Linux 2.0
+ Trustix Secure Linux 2.1
Netatalk Open Source Apple File Share Protocol Suite 1.6.1
+ Trustix Secure Linux 2.0
Netatalk Open Source Apple File Share Protocol Suite 1.5 pre6
+ Trustix Secure Linux 1.5
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.1 x86_64
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.1
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.0 AMD64
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.0
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 9.2 amd64
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 9.2
MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 2.1 x86_64
MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 2.1
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

NetaTalk Unspecified Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

Netatalk is affected by an insecure temporary file creation vulnerability. This issue is due to a design error that causes the application to fail to verify the existance of a file 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.

Versions of Netatalk prior to version 1.6.4a are reported to be affected by this issue.

Exploit / POC

NetaTalk Unspecified Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

No exploit is required to leverage this issue.

Solution / Fix

NetaTalk 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.

Gentoo has made an advisory (GLSA 200410-25) available dealing with this issue. Gentoo has advised that all Netatalk users should upgrade to the latest version:
emerge sync
emerge -pv ">=net-fs/netatalk-1.6.4-r1"
emerge ">=net-fs/netatalk-1.6.4-r1"
For more information, please see the referenced Gentoo Linux advisory.

Mandrake Linux has released advisory MDKSA-2004:121 along with fixes dealing with this and other issues. Please see the referenced advisory for more information.

RedHat Linux has released advisories FEDORA-2004-505, and FEDORA-2004-506 to address this issue in Fedora Core 2, and 3 respectively. Please see the referenced advisories for further information.

Turbolinux has released advisory Turbolinux Security Announcement 31/Jan/2005 to address various issues. Please see the referenced advisory for more information.

The vendor has released version 1.6.4a of the affected package to resolve this issue:


Netatalk Open Source Apple File Share Protocol Suite 1.5 pre6

Netatalk Open Source Apple File Share Protocol Suite 1.6.1

Netatalk Open Source Apple File Share Protocol Suite 1.6.4

Turbolinux Turbolinux Workstation 7.0

Turbolinux Turbolinux Server 7.0

Turbolinux Turbolinux Server 8.0

Turbolinux Turbolinux Workstation 8.0

References

NetaTalk Unspecified Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

References:

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