Wine Local Insecure File Creation Vulnerability

BID:12791

Info

Wine Local Insecure File Creation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 12791
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-2005-0787
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Mar 14 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 12 2009 10:56AM
Credit: Giovanni Delvecchio <[email protected]> is credited with the discovery of this issue.
Vulnerable: Wine Windows API Emulator 20050310
Wine Windows API Emulator 20050305
Wine Windows API Emulator 20050211
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Wine Local Insecure File Creation Vulnerability

A local insecure file creation vulnerability affects Wine. This issue is due to a design error that fails to securely write to files in world-accessible directories.

An attacker may leverage this issue to use a symbolic link file named after the offending temporary file to write to arbitrary files with an unsuspecting user's privileges. Furthermore and attacker may gain access to potentially sensitive information contained within the temporary file.

Exploit / POC

Wine Local Insecure File Creation Vulnerability

No exploit is required to leverage this issue.

Solution / Fix

Wine Local Insecure File Creation Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

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Wine Local Insecure File Creation Vulnerability

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