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Published: 12/07/2005 Updated: 05/09/2008

CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 187

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

xpvm.tcl in xpvm 1.2.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the xpvm.trace.$user temporary file.

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Eric Romang discovered that xpvm, a graphical console and monitor for PVM, creates a temporary file that allows local attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running xpvm For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 125-72woody1 For the stable distribution (sarge) this ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://secunia.com/advisories/16040 http://www.zataz.net/adviso/xpvm-06272005.txt http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14228 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1003 http://secunia.com/advisories/19251 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-1003

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