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TITLE:
Aegis "aegis.cgi" Insecure Temporary Files

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31970

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CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Aegis 4.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/19964/

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

The security issue is caused due to the "aegis.cgi" script using
temporary files in an insecure manner. This can be exploited via
symlink attacks to e.g. overwrite arbitrary files with escalated
privileges.

The security issue is reported in versions prior to 4.24.1.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 4.24.1.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by Dmitry E. Oboukhov in a Debian bug report.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496400

http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=628697

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