FrSIRT - ARC "marc" and "arc" Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability / Exploit (Security Advisories)

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ARC "marc" and "arc" Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

Title : ARC "marc" and "arc" Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2005-1766
CVE ID : CVE-2005-2945
Rated as : Low Risk

Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-09-16

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

Technical Description

A vulnerability was identified in ARC, which may be exploited by malicious users to conduct symlink attacks and create/overwrite arbitrary files [...]

Solution

Upgrade to ARC version 5.21m :
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93691

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Eric Romang

ChangeLog

2005-09-16 : Initial release
2005-10-10 : Updated Solution

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