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TITLE:
TAU Insecure Temporary Files

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32821

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32821/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
TAU 2.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/20583/

DESCRIPTION:
Some security issues have been reported in TAU, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with
escalated privileges.

The security issue is caused due to certain scripts (e.g. "tau_cxx",
"tau_cc", and "tau_f90") using temporary files in an insecure manner.
This can be exploited to e.g. overwrite arbitrary files via symlink
attacks.

SOLUTION:
Restrict local access to trusted users only.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by Dmitry E. Oboukhov via the "debian-devel" mailing list.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506348

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