Description
The sort_offline function for texindex in texinfo 4.8 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305530 ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-194-1 ↗
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0727.html ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1939 ↗
- http://lists.trustix.org/pipermail/tsl-announce/2005-October/000354.html ↗
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00004.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25402 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464745/100/0/threaded ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17076 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18401 ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:175 ↗
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=328365 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17211 ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1267 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14854 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23112 ↗
- http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-2559638-patch.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17093 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24788 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16816 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22929 ↗
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-04.xml ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17070 ↗
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1015468 ↗
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1014992 ↗
- http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-1121906-patch.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17215 ↗
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10589 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1219 ↗
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_23_sr.html ↗