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Summary

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Vendor Uoregon First view 2008-11-18
Product Tau Last view 2010-10-20
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CPE Name Affected CVE
cpe:2.3:a:uoregon:tau:2.16.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2

Related : CVE

  Date Alert Description
6.9 2010-10-20 CVE-2010-3382

tauex in Tuning and Analysis Utilities (TAU) 2.16.4 places a zero-length directory name in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse shared library in the current working directory.

6.9 2008-11-18 CVE-2008-5157

tau 2.16.4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) /tmp/makefile.tau.*.##### or (2) /tmp/makefile.tau*.##### temporary file, related to the (a) tau_cxx, (b) tau_f90, and (c) tau_cc scripts.

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

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100% (1) CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

id Description
68801 Tuning and Analysis Utilities (TAU) tauex LD_LIBRARY_PATH Zero-length Directo...
49956 tau tau_cc Multiple Temporary File Symlink Arbitrary File Overwrite
49955 tau tau_f90 Multiple Temporary File Symlink Arbitrary File Overwrite
49954 tau tau_cxx Multiple Temporary File Symlink Arbitrary File Overwrite