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TITLE:
Claws Mail sylprint.pl Insecure Temporary Files

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27897

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27897/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Claws Mail 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/16777/

DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in Claws Mail, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with
escalated privileges.

The security issue is caused due to the sylprint.pl script using
temporary files in an insecure manner. This can be exploited to
overwrite or delete arbitrary files via symlink attacks.

The security issue is reported in version 3.1.0. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Restrict local access to trusted users only.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Nico Golde, Debian

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=454089

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