A vulnerability has been identified in Antiword, which may be exploited by malicious users to conduct symlink attacks. The problem is due to errors in the "kantiword" and "gantiword" scripts that create temporary files in an insecure manner, which may be exploited by local attackers to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running the vulnerable script.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena
ChangeLog
2006-01-18 : Initial release
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