National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-0512
Original release date:02/02/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
PADL MigrationTools 46 creates temporary files insecurely, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the temporary files, which are not properly created by (1) migrate_all_online.sh, (2) migrate_all_offline.sh, (3) migrate_all_netinfo_online.sh, (4) migrate_all_netinfo_offline.sh, (5) migrate_all_nis_online.sh, (6) migrate_all_nis_offline.sh, (7) migrate_all_nisplus_online.sh, and (8) migrate_all_nisplus_offline.sh.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
- Official Statement from Mandriva (10/04/2006)
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Mandriva has patched the migrationtools since August 2005 to use mktemp so is not vulnerable to this issue.
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External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2005-2427
Type: Advisory
External Source: MISC
Name: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=338920
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22243
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1187