CVE-2006-4233 Information

Description

Globus Toolkit 3.2.x 4.0.x and 4.1.0 before 20060815 allow local users to obtain sensitive information (proxy certificates) and overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files in the /tmp directory as demonstrated by files created by (1) myproxy-admin-adduser (2) grid-ca-sign and (3) grid-security-config.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/21516 http://www.globus.org/mail_archive/security-announce/2006/08/msg00001.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19549 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3290 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28410