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TITLE:
Pine rpdump File Creation Race Condition Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14899

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CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
Manipulation of data

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Pine 4.x
http://secunia.com/product/710/

DESCRIPTION:
Imran Ghory has reported a vulnerability in Pine, which potentially
can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions
on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to a race condition in the rpdump
utility when creating files. The problem is that there is a larger
gap between the time that a check is made to determine whether a
local file exists and the time that the file is created. This can be
exploited via symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the
privileges of the user running the vulnerable program.

Successful exploitation requires write permissions to the directory,
which rpdump creates the local file in.

The vulnerability has been reported in Pine 4.62. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Ensure that only the user has write permissions to the directory used
for creating the file with rpdump.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Imran Ghory

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