hugin, as used on various operating systems including SUSE openSUSE 10.2 and 10.3, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the hugin_debug_optim_results.txt temporary file.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5200
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=332401
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=362851
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00199.html
• http://osvdb.org/42224
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27229
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27623
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27653
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27952
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-01.xml
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_20_sr.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26730