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Published: 06/11/2005 Updated: 08/03/2011

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

syslogtocern in Acme thttpd prior to 2.23 allows local users to write arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

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Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit team discovered that the syslogtocern script from thttpd, a tiny webserver, uses a temporary file insecurely, allowing a local attacker to craft a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 221b-113 For ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-883 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15320 http://secunia.com/advisories/17454 http://secunia.com/advisories/17472 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2308 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-883

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