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CVE-2006-4233

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2006-08-15 globus -- Multiple tmpfile races

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2006-4233
Phase Assigned(20060818)

Description

Globus Toolkit 3.2.x, 4.0.x, and 4.1.0 before 20060815 allow local users to obtain sensitive information (proxy certificates) and overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files in the /tmp directory, as demonstrated by files created by (1) myproxy-admin-adduser, (2) grid-ca-sign, and (3) grid-security-config.

References

Source Reference
MLIST [security-announce] 20060815 Temporary File Handling Vulnerability
BID 19549
VUPEN ADV-2006-3290
SECUNIA 21516
XF globus-tmp-symlink(28410)