emesenelib/ProfileManager.py in emesene before 1.6.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the emsnpic temporary file.

emesenelib/ProfileManager.py in emesene before 1.6.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the emsnpic temporary file.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
47551	Fedora 11 : emesene-1.6.2-1.fc11 (2010-9696)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	low
47550	Fedora 13 : emesene-1.6.2-1.fc13 (2010-9692)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	low
47549	Fedora 12 : emesene-1.6.2-1.fc12 (2010-9679)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	low

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2010-2053

medium

Tenable Plugins

low

low

low