Antiword Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerabilities

BID:16278

Info

Antiword Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID: 16278
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-2005-3126
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Jan 17 2006 12:00AM
Updated: Jan 17 2006 12:00AM
Credit: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit project discovered these issues.
Vulnerable: Debian Linux 3.1 sparc
Debian Linux 3.1 s/390
Debian Linux 3.1 ppc
Debian Linux 3.1 mipsel
Debian Linux 3.1 mips
Debian Linux 3.1 m68k
Debian Linux 3.1 ia-64
Debian Linux 3.1 ia-32
Debian Linux 3.1 hppa
Debian Linux 3.1 arm
Debian Linux 3.1 amd64
Debian Linux 3.1 alpha
Debian Linux 3.1
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
Antiword Antiword 0.35
Antiword Antiword 0.32
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Antiword Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerabilities

Antiword creates temporary files in an insecure manner.

Exploitation would most likely result in loss of data or a denial of service if critical files are overwritten in the attack. Other attacks may be possible as well.

Exploit / POC

Antiword Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerabilities

An exploit is not required.

Solution / Fix

Antiword Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerabilities

Solution:
Debian GNU/Linux has released advisory DSA 945-1, along with fixes to address these issues. Please see the referenced advisory for further information.

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]>.

References

Antiword Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerabilities

References:

© CVE.report 2026

Use of this information constitutes acceptance for use in an AS IS condition. There are NO warranties, implied or otherwise, with regard to this information or its use. Any use of this information is at the user's risk. It is the responsibility of user to evaluate the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any information, opinion, advice or other content. EACH USER WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY consequences of his or her direct or indirect use of this web site. ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED. This site will NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT or any other kind of loss.

CVE, CWE, and OVAL are registred trademarks of The MITRE Corporation and the authoritative source of CVE content is MITRE's CVE web site. This site includes MITRE data granted under the following license.

Free CVE JSON API cve.report/api

CVE.report and Source URL Uptime Status status.cve.report