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TITLE:
openMosixview Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14693

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14693/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Manipulation of data, Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
openMosixview 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/4839/

DESCRIPTION:
Gangstuck and Psirac have reported some vulnerabilities in
openMosixview, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated
privileges.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to various temporary files being
created insecurely with predictable filenames. This can be exploited
via symlink attacks to create or overwrite arbitrary files on the
system with the privileges of the user running openmosixview or the
openmosixcollector daemon.

The vulnerabilities have been reported in versions 1.5 and prior.

SOLUTION:
Grant only trusted users access to affected systems.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Gangstuck and Psirac, Rexotec.

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