CVE-2003-1279 Information

Description

S-PLUS 6.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and possibly elevate privileges via a symlink attack on (1) /tmp/__F8499 by Sqpe (2) /tmp/PRINT.$$.out by PRINT (3) /tmp/SUBST$PID.TXT and /tmp/ed.cmds$PID by mustfix.hlinks (4) /tmp/file.1 and /tmp/file.2 by sas_get (5) /tmp/file.1 by sas_vars and (6) /tmp/sgml2html$$tmp /tmp/sgml2html$$tmp1 /tmp/sgml2html$$tmp2 by sglm2html.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/7833 http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/11005.php http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/305342 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6530 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1005896