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HistoryDec 03, 2002 - 12:00 a.m.

im - insecure temporary files

2002-12-0300:00:00
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Tatsuya Kinoshita discovered that IM, which contains interface
commands and Perl libraries for E-mail and NetNews, creates temporary
files insecurely.

  • The impwagent program creates a temporary directory in an insecure
    manner in /tmp using predictable directory names without checking
    the return code of mkdir, so it’s possible to seize a permission
    of the temporary directory by local access as another user.
  • The immknmz program creates a temporary file in an insecure manner
    in /tmp using a predictable filename, so an attacker with local
    access can easily create and overwrite files as another user.

These problems have been fixed in version 141-18.1 for the current
stable distribution (woody), in version 133-2.2 of the old stable
distribution (potato) and in version 141-20 for the unstable
distribution (sid).

We recommend that you upgrade your IM package.

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