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TITLE:
wyrd Insecure Temporary File

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29009

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29009/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
wyrd 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/17596/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been discovered in wyrd, which can be exploited
by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated
privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to wyrd creating a temporary file in
an insecure manner. This can be exploited to overwrite arbitrary
files with permissions of another user.

Successful exploitation requires that the user invokes the help
function by pressing "?" within the user interface.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.4.3b. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Grant only trusted users access to affected systems.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported in a Debian bug.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=466382

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