Secunia Security Advisory – A vulnerability has been reported in OpenSSL, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges. The vulnerability is caused due to the der_chop script creating temporary files insecurely. This can be exploited via symlink attacks to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user executing the vulnerable. The vulnerability has been reported in versions 0.9.6m, 0.9.7d, and 0.9.7e. Other versions may also be affected.
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