Insecure Permissions and Symlink Attack in UNIX News Readers tin and rtin

CVE-1999-1091 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

UNIX news readers tin and rtin create the /tmp/.tin_log file with insecure permissions and follow symlinks, which allows attackers to modify the permissions of files writable by the user via a symlink attack.

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