Title: Merkaartor Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
Merkaartor is a mapping application available for various platforms.
The application creates temporary files in an insecure manner. This issue occurs when creating log files in the '/tmp' directory.
An attacker with local access could potentially exploit this issue to perform symbolic-link attacks to overwrite arbitrary attacker-specified files.
NOTE: The issue does not affect the Windows version.
The issue affects Merkaartor 0.14; other versions may also be vulnerable.
Affected Products:
- Merkaartor Merkaartor 0.14
- RedHat Fedora 11
- RedHat Fedora 12
References:
- Debian: #548546 - merkaartor: minor symlink attack
- Merkaartor: Merkaartor Homepage
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