Merkaartor Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

BID:36529

Info

Merkaartor Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 36529
Class: Race Condition Error
CVE: CVE-2009-4193
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Sep 27 2009 12:00AM
Updated: Apr 13 2015 09:51PM
Credit: Paul Wise in a Debian bug report.
Vulnerable: Merkaartor Merkaartor 0.14
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Merkaartor Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

Merkaartor creates temporary files in an insecure manner.

An attacker with local access could potentially exploit this issue to perform symbolic-link attacks to overwrite arbitrary attacker-specified files.

The issue affects Merkaartor 0.14; other versions may also be vulnerable.

Exploit / POC

Merkaartor Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

An attacker uses readily available commands to exploit the issue.

Solution / Fix

Merkaartor Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

Solution:
Updates are available. Please see the references for more information.

References

Merkaartor Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

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