Published: 10/10/2006 Updated: 20/07/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 1.9

VMScore: 552

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

The System.CodeDom.Compiler classes in Novell Mono create temporary files with insecure permissions, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files or execute arbitrary code via a symlink attack.

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Sebastian Krahmer of the SuSE security team discovered that the SystemCodeDomCompiler classes used temporary files in an insecure way This could allow a symbolic link attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program Under some circumstances, a local attacker could also exploit this to inject arb ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-357-1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20340 http://secunia.com/advisories/22237 http://secunia.com/advisories/22277 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:188 http://secunia.com/advisories/22614 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-23.xml http://secunia.com/advisories/23154 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_73_mono.html http://secunia.com/advisories/23213 http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2401 http://secunia.com/advisories/23776 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3911 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29353 https://usn.ubuntu.com/357-1/https://nvd.nist.gov

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