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Antiword "kantiword" and "gantiword" Insecure Temporary File Creation

Title : Antiword "kantiword" and "gantiword" Insecure Temporary File Creation
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2006-0242
CVE ID : CVE-2005-3126
Rated as : Low Risk

Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-01-18

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

References

Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Antiword, which may be exploited by malicious users to conduct symlink attacks [...]

References

http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/0242
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-945

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena

ChangeLog

2006-01-18 : Initial release

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