Title: TkDiff Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
TkDiff is a graphical diff and merge tool.
TkDiff creates temporary files in an insecure manner. An attacker with local access could potentially exploit this issue to overwrite files in the context of the application.
A local attacker would most likely take advantage of this vulnerability by creating a malicious symbolic link in a directory where the temporary files will be created. When the program tries to perform an operation on a temporary file, it will instead perform the operation on the file pointed to by the malicious symlink.
Exploitation would most likely result in loss of data or a denial of service if critical files are overwritten in the attack. Other attacks may be possible as well.
TkDiff 4.1 and prior versions are vulnerable to this issue.
Affected Products:
- Debian Linux 3.0.0
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 alpha
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 arm
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 hppa
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 ia-32
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 ia-64
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 m68k
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 mips
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 mipsel
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 ppc
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 s/390
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 sparc
- Debian Linux 3.1.0
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 alpha
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 amd64
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 arm
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 hppa
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 ia-32
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 ia-64
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 m68k
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 mips
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 mipsel
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 ppc
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 s/390
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 sparc
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 10.2.0
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 10.2.0 x86_64
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 2006.0.0
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 2006.0.0 x86_64
- TkCVS TkCVS 7.2.2
- TkDiff TkDiff 3.0.8
- TkDiff TkDiff 3.0.9
- TkDiff TkDiff 4.0.0
- TkDiff TkDiff 4.0.2
- TkDiff TkDiff 4.1.0
References:
- TkDiff: TkDiff Home Page
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