rident.pl Symbolic Link Vulnerability

BID:9968

Info

rident.pl Symbolic Link Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 9968
Class: Design Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Mar 24 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Mar 24 2004 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery is credited to Martin <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: rident.pl rident.pl 0.91 b
Not Vulnerable: rident.pl rident.pl 0.92 b

Discussion

rident.pl Symbolic Link Vulnerability

It has been reported that rident.pl may be prone to a symbolic link vulnerability that may allow an attacker to corrupt or overwrite arbitrary files. This issue exists because the script writes output to a temporary file as 'rident.pid' in 'tmp' directory.

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

Exploit / POC

rident.pl Symbolic Link Vulnerability

There is no exploit required.

Solution / Fix

rident.pl Symbolic Link Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released an update (Version 0.9.2b) to address this issue.


rident.pl rident.pl 0.91 b

References

rident.pl Symbolic Link Vulnerability

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