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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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2001-09-12T04:00:00
Updated: 2017-12-18T21:57:01
Reserved: 2001-08-31T00:00:00
Link: CVE-1999-1091
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NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2002-01-15T05:00:00.000
Modified: 2017-12-19T02:29:01.910
Link: CVE-1999-1091
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