MTink Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

BID:11640

Info

MTink Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 11640
Class: Access Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Nov 09 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Nov 09 2004 12:00AM
Credit: Tavis Ormandy from Gentoo Linux discovered this vulnerability.
Vulnerable: Jean-Jacques Sarton mtink 1.0.4
Jean-Jacques Sarton mtink 0.9.53
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 9.0
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.2
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.1
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.0
Jean-Jacques Sarton mtink 0.9.52
Jean-Jacques Sarton mtink 0.9.33
Jean-Jacques Sarton mtink 0.9.32
Gentoo Linux
Not Vulnerable: Jean-Jacques Sarton mtink 1.0.5
+ Gentoo Linux

Discussion

MTink Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

The MTink package is 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 the existence 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.

Exploit / POC

MTink Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

No exploit is required.

Solution / Fix

MTink Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

Solution:
This vulnerability has reportedly been fixed in version 1.0.5.

Gentoo Linux has released advisory GLSA 200411-17 dealing with this issue. Users of affected packages are urged to execute the following commands with superuser privileges:
emerge --sync
emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-print/mtink-1.0.5"
Please see the referenced advisory for further information.


Jean-Jacques Sarton mtink 0.9.32

Jean-Jacques Sarton mtink 0.9.33

Jean-Jacques Sarton mtink 0.9.52

Jean-Jacques Sarton mtink 0.9.53

Jean-Jacques Sarton mtink 1.0.4

References

MTink Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

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