Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability in Xscreensaver 4.14

CVE-2003-0885 · MEDIUM Severity

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

Xscreensaver 4.14 contains certain debugging code that should have been omitted, which causes Xscreensaver to create temporary files insecurely in the (1) apple2, (2) xanalogtv, and (3) pong screensavers, and allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

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