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1997 Oct 06
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KSR[T] Advisory #3: updatedb / crontabs
...temp files, and it will follow symbolic links. A
creative attacker can create files in a world writable
directory that allows them to control what data will
be written to the symbolic link.
SuSE Linux 5.0: makewhatis uses /tmp, this allows
attackers to overwrite files as root. They cannot
control the data being written.
The system crontab also calls updatedb.
check_log_file() contains a SERIOUS security hole that...