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SuSE: aaa_base 9.0-10

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SuSE: aaa_base 9.0-10

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/25/2004
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/08/2005
Modified
11/18/2015

Description

This updates fixes several /tmp file removal race problems in aaa_base:

  • The suse.de-clean-vi was not race free and could be used by a local attacker to remove any file on the system.
  • The safe-rm script used for safe /tmp file removal could be tricked by a local attacker with a symlink attack to remove any file in the filesystem due to a very narrow race in bash directory handling.
  • The initial tmp file cleaning script could be tricked by a local attacker to delete any file on the system with the agent substring "agent" in its name.

Thanks to Stefan Nordhausen for reporting this problems to us!

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