Published: 17/08/2005 Updated: 05/09/2008

CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10

VMScore: 445

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

langen2kvtml in KDE 3.0 to 3.4.2 creates insecure temporary files in /tmp with predictable names, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files.

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Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña discovered that langen2kvhtml from the kvoctrain package from the kdeedu suite creates temporary files in an insecure fashion This leaves them open for symlink attacks The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by these problems For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in versio ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050815-1.txt http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:159 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-818 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14561 http://securitytracker.com/id?1014675 http://secunia.com/advisories/16428 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-818

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