Phase:Xscreensaver 4.14 contains certain debugging code that should have been omitted, which causes Xscreensaver to create temporary files insecurely in the (1) apple2, (2) xanalogtv, and (3) pong screensavers, and allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
ReferencesCONFIRM:http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41253 | CONFIRM:http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182286
Votes:Assigned (Friday, October 24, 2003)
Comments:None (candidate not yet proposed)
F7: