Vulnerabilities > CVE-2007-4462 - Local Privilege Escalation vulnerability in po4a GetTextization.Failed.PO
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
lib/Locale/Po4a/Po.pm in po4a before 0.32 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the gettextization.failed.po temporary file.
Nessus
| NASL family | Gentoo Local Security Checks |
| NASL id | GENTOO_GLSA-200709-04.NASL |
| description | The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200709-04 (po4a: Insecure temporary file creation) The po4a development team reported a race condition in the gettextize() function when creating the file |
| last seen | 2020-06-01 |
| modified | 2020-06-02 |
| plugin id | 26094 |
| published | 2007-09-24 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/26094 |
| title | GLSA-200709-04 : po4a: Insecure temporary file creation |
References
- http://alioth.debian.org/frs/shownotes.php?release_id=1019
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189440
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26492
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26810
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200709-04.xml
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25402
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=253541