Title: StarOffice /tmp Directory Symbolic Link Vulnerability
Severity: LOW
Description:
StarOffice is a productivity package designed designed to offer advanced word processing and business applications. A vulnerability exists which can allow users to read and write to restricted files belonging to users who run StarOffice.
The problem occurs in use of the /tmp directory. When a user starts the StarOffice application, the application creates the /tmp/soffice.tmp directory with permissions set to 0777. The application has also been observed changing the permissions to 0777 during operation. It is possible for a malicious user to symbolically link the /tmp/soffice.tmp directory to a directory or file owned by a user of StarOffice, thereby changing the permissions of the linked file or directory to 0777. This can result in an elevation of privileges for the attacker.
Affected Products:
- Debian Linux 2.3.0
- RedHat Linux 6.2.0 alpha
- RedHat Linux 6.2.0 i386
- RedHat Linux 6.2.0 sparc
- RedHat Linux 7.0.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux 6.4.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux 7.0.0
- Sun Solaris 2.6
- Sun Solaris 2.6_x86
- Sun Solaris 7.0
- Sun Solaris 7.0_x86
- Sun Solaris 8
- Sun Solaris 8_x86
- Sun StarOffice 5.2.0
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