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apachetop: insecure temporary file

Package(s):

apachetop

CVE #(s):

CAN-2005-2660

Created:

October 4, 2005

Updated:

October 5, 2005

Description:

Eric Romang discovered an insecurely created temporary file in apachetop, a realtime monitoring tool for the Apache webserver that could be exploited with a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files with the user id that runs apachetop.

Alerts:

Debian

DSA-839-1

2005-10-04

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