AIM Sniff Temporary File Symlink Attack Vulnerability

BID:9653

Info

AIM Sniff Temporary File Symlink Attack Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 9653
Class: Access Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2004-0279
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Feb 12 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 12 2009 02:06AM
Credit: Discover of this vulnerability has been credited to Martin <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: AIM Sniff AIM Sniff 0.9 b
AIM Sniff AIM Sniff 0.9
AIM Sniff AIM Sniff 0.8
AIM Sniff AIM Sniff 0.7
AIM Sniff AIM Sniff 0.6
Not Vulnerable: AIM Sniff AIM Sniff 0.9 d

Discussion

AIM Sniff Temporary File Symlink Attack Vulnerability

AIM Sniff has been reported prone to a Symbolic link vulnerability. The issue presents itself, because the aimSniff.pl script creates temporary files in an insecure manner.

An attacker may exploit this issue to corrupt arbitrary files. This corruption may potentially result in the elevation of privileges, or in a system wide denial of service.

It has been reported that a user will require root privileges to invoke the affected script; this may magnify the impact of this vulnerability.

Exploit / POC

Solution / Fix

AIM Sniff Temporary File Symlink Attack Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has supplied an upgrade to address this issue:


AIM Sniff AIM Sniff 0.6

AIM Sniff AIM Sniff 0.7

AIM Sniff AIM Sniff 0.8

AIM Sniff AIM Sniff 0.9

AIM Sniff AIM Sniff 0.9 b

References

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