FreeBSD PortUpgrade Local Insecure Temporary File Handling Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	13106
Class:	Design Error
CVE:	CVE-2005-0610
Remote:	No
Local:	Yes
Published:	Apr 12 2005 12:00AM
Updated:	Jul 12 2009 12:56PM
Credit:	Simon L. Nielsen is credited with the discovery of this issue.
Vulnerable:	FreeBSD FreeBSD 5.4 -RELEASE FreeBSD FreeBSD 5.4 -PRERELEASE FreeBSD FreeBSD 5.3 -STABLE FreeBSD FreeBSD 5.3 -RELENG FreeBSD FreeBSD 5.3 -RELEASE FreeBSD FreeBSD 5.3 FreeBSD FreeBSD 5.2.1 -RELEASE FreeBSD FreeBSD 5.2 -RELENG FreeBSD FreeBSD 5.2 -RELEASE FreeBSD FreeBSD 5.2 FreeBSD FreeBSD 5.1 -RELENG FreeBSD FreeBSD 5.1 -RELEASE/Alpha FreeBSD FreeBSD 5.1 -RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD FreeBSD 5.1 -RELEASE FreeBSD FreeBSD 5.1 FreeBSD FreeBSD 5.0 -RELENG FreeBSD FreeBSD 5.0 -RELEASE-p14 FreeBSD FreeBSD 5.0 alpha FreeBSD FreeBSD 5.0 FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.11 -STABLE FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.10 -RELENG FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.10 -RELEASE FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.10 FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.9 -RELENG FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.9 -PRERELEASE FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.9 FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.8 -RELENG FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.8 -RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.8 -PRERELEASE FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.8 FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.7 -STABLE FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.7 -RELENG FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.7 -RELEASE-p17 FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.7 -RELEASE FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.7 FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.6.2 FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.6 -STABLE FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.6 -RELENG FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.6 -RELEASE-p20 FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.6 -RELEASE FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.6 FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.5 -STABLEpre2002-03-07 FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.5 -STABLE FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.5 -RELENG FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.5 -RELEASE-p32 FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.5 -RELEASE FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.5 FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.4 -STABLE FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.4 -RELENG FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.4 -RELENG FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.4 -RELEASE-p42 FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.4 FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.3 -STABLE FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.3 -RELENG FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.3 -RELEASE-p38 FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.3 -RELEASE FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.3 FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.2 -STABLEpre122300 FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.2 -STABLEpre050201 FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.2 -STABLE FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.2 -RELEASE FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.2 FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.1.1 -STABLE FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.1.1 -RELEASE FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.1.1 FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.1 FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.0 .x FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.0 -RELENG FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.0 alpha FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.0
Not Vulnerable:

FreeBSD PortUpgrade Local Insecure Temporary File Handling Vulnerability

A local insecure file handling vulnerability affects FreeBSD portupgrade. This issue is due to a design error that causes the affected application to fail to securely handle temporary files.

An attacker may leverage this issue to corrupt arbitrary files and execute code with the privileges of a user that runs the vulnerable utility. It should be noted that this utility is commonly run with superuser privileges.

FreeBSD PortUpgrade Local Insecure Temporary File Handling Vulnerability

No exploit is required to leverage this issue.

FreeBSD PortUpgrade Local Insecure Temporary File Handling 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]>.

FreeBSD PortUpgrade Local Insecure Temporary File Handling Vulnerability

References:

• FreeBSD Homepage (FreeBSD)
  
• portupgrade -- insecure temporary file handling vulnerability (VuXML.org)