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TITLE:
UUDeview Insecure Temporary File Creation

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30171

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30171/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Manipulation of data

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
UUDeview 0.5.x
http://secunia.com/product/3127/

DESCRIPTION:
Marco d'Itri has reported a vulnerability in UUDeview, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with
escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to the application creating temporary
files insecurely using the "tempnam()" function. This can be exploited
to overwrite arbitrary files on the local system with the privileges
of the user running uudeview.

The vulnerability is reported in version 0.5.20. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Grant only trusted users access to affected systems.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Marco d'Itri, reported in a Debian bug report.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=480972

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