Secunia Security Advisory – Cyrille Barthelemy has reported a vulnerability in Nessus, potentially allowing malicious users to escalate their privileges. The problem is caused by a race condition in nessus-adduser if the user has not specified the environment variable TMPDIR. This has been reported to affect version 2.0.11. Prior versions may also be affected.
You can download this advisory from the following link: https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/33860/sa12127.txt
Source: https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/33860/Secunia-Security-Advisory-12127.html