CVE-2004-2502 Information

Description

im-switch before 11.4-46.1 in Fedora Core 2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the imswitcher[PID] temporary file.

Reference

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=126940 http://packetstormsecurity.org/0407-advisories/fedora_im-switch_tempfile_race.txt http://secunia.com/advisories/12037 http://www.osvdb.org/7772 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10717 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16682