Published: 15/09/2005 Updated: 18/10/2016

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

The open_cmd_tube function in mount.c for gtkdiskfree 1.9.3 and previous versions allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the gtkdiskfree temporary file.

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Eric Romang discovered that gtkdiskfree, a GNOME program that shows free and used space on filesystems, creates a temporary file in an insecure fashion The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain the gtkdiskfree package For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 193-4sarge1 For the unstable distribution ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.zataz.net/adviso/gtkdiskfree-09052005.txt http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104565 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-822 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-01.xml http://secunia.com/advisories/17005 http://secunia.com/advisories/16951 http://secunia.com/advisories/17056 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112680706715109&w=2 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-822

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