openvas-scanner before 2011-09-11 creates a temporary file insecurely when generating …
openvas-scanner before 2011-09-11 creates a temporary file insecurely when generating OVAL system characteristics document with the ovaldi integrated tool enabled. A local attacker could use this flaw to conduct symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files on the system.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-3351 x_refsource_MISC
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-3351 x_refsource_MISC
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-3351 x_refsource_MISC
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3351 x_refsource_MISC
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-3351 x_transferred x_refsource_MISC
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-3351 x_transferred x_refsource_MISC
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-3351 x_transferred x_refsource_MISC
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3351 x_transferred x_refsource_MISC
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-3351 x_refsource_MISC
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-3351 x_refsource_MISC
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-3351 x_refsource_MISC
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3351 x_refsource_MISC
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3351 x_transferred x_refsource_MISC
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-3351 x_transferred x_refsource_MISC
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-3351 x_transferred x_refsource_MISC
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-3351 x_transferred x_refsource_MISC
Affected products
openvas-scanner
- ==through 2011-09-11
Package maintainers
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@fabaff Fabian Affolter <mail@fabian-affolter.ch>