BMV Insecure Temporary File Vulnerability

BID:12229

Info

BMV Insecure Temporary File Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 12229
Class: Access Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2003-0014
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Jan 11 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 12 2009 09:27AM
Credit: Discovery is credited to Holger Klawitter.
Vulnerable: BMV BMV 1.2
+ Debian Linux 3.0 sparc
+ Debian Linux 3.0 s/390
+ Debian Linux 3.0 ppc
+ Debian Linux 3.0 mipsel
+ Debian Linux 3.0 mips
+ Debian Linux 3.0 m68k
+ Debian Linux 3.0 ia-64
+ Debian Linux 3.0 ia-32
+ Debian Linux 3.0 hppa
+ Debian Linux 3.0 arm
+ Debian Linux 3.0 alpha
+ Debian Linux 3.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

BMV Insecure Temporary File Vulnerability

BMV creates temporary files in an insecure manner. A local attacker could take advantage of this issue to perform symbolic link attacks and corrupt files in the context of the user running the application.

It is not known if this vulnerability could be exploited to gain elevated privileges, though at the very least an attacker could cause critical files to be overwritten, causing loss of data or a denial of service condition.

Exploit / POC

BMV Insecure Temporary File Vulnerability

There is no exploit required.

Solution / Fix

BMV Insecure Temporary File Vulnerability

Solution:
Debian has released advisory DSA 633-1 to provide updates for this issue.


BMV BMV 1.2

References

BMV Insecure Temporary File Vulnerability

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