IMWheel race condition
| imwheel-race-condition (17082) |  High Risk |
Description:
IMWheel is a mouse wheel and stick interpreter running on Linux-based operating systems. IMWheel version 1.0.0pre11 and possilbly earlier versions are vulnerable to a race condition when creating insecure temporary files in the /tmp/imwheel.pid file. A local attacker could create a symbolic link from an authorization file to any known file on the system, which would be overwritten once a user executes the /tmp/imwheel.pid program. An attacker could use this vulnerability to overwrite files on the system, and possibly gain elevated privileges or cause a denial of service.
Platforms Affected:
- IMWheel, IMWheel 1.0.0pre11
Remedy:
No remedy available as of February 16, 2009.
Consequences:
File Manipulation
References:
- Computer Academic Underground CAU-2004-0002, imwheel Predictable PidFile Name Race Condition at http://www.caughq.org/advisories/CAU-2004-0002.txt.
- IMWheel, Manpage of IMWheel at http://imwheel.sourceforge.net/imwheel.1.html.
- IMWheel Web page, IMWheel at http://imwheel.sourceforge.net/.
- BID-11008: IMWheel Predictable Temporary File Creation Vulnerability
- CVE-2004-2698: Race condition in IMWheel 1.0.0pre11 and earlier, when running with the -k option, allows local users to cause a denial of service (IMWheel crash) and possibly modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the imwheel.pid file.
- OSVDB ID: 9111: IMWheel Insecure Temporary File Creation
- SA12349: IMWheel Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability
- SECTRACK ID: 1011049: imwheel Predictable Temporary File May Let Local Users Gain Elevated Privileges
Reported:
Jun 24, 2004
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