full-disclosure - capi4hylafax insecure manipulation with tmp files

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Date: Tue Mar  7 21:27:28 2006
From: drfrancky at securax.org (Javor Ninov)
Subject: capi4hylafax insecure manipulation with tmp files

capi4hylafax suite (http://freshmeat.net/projects/capi4hylafax/ ) is
addon for hylafax fax server (http://www.hylafax.org/)

vulnerable:
capi4hylafax-01.03.00 /probably others/

in capi4hylafax-01.03.00/src/faxrecv/faxrecv.cpp :

#ifdef GENERATE_DEBUGSFFDATAFILE
    dwarning (DebugSffDataFile == 0);
      if (!DebugSffDataFile) {
       DebugSffDataFile = fopen ("/tmp/c2faxrecv_dbgdatafile.sff", "w");
      }
#endif

in

and in capi4hylafax-01.03.00/src/faxsend/faxsend.cpp :

#ifdef GENERATE_DEBUGSFFDATAFILE
     dassert (DebugSffDataFile == 0);
     DebugSffDataFile = fopen ("/tmp/c2faxsend_dbgdatafile.sff", "w");
#endif

vulnerable capi4hylafax-1.1a

in capi4hylafax-1.1a/src/standard/ExtFuncs.h :
    #define DEBUG_FILE_NAME             "/tmp/c2faxfcalls.log"

then in capi4hylafax-1.1a/src/standard/DbgFile.c:
unsigned DebugFileOpen (void) {
    DebugFileClose();
    hFile = fopen (DEBUG_FILE_NAME, "w");
    return (hFile != 0);
}
<snip>
void DebugFilePrint (char *string) {
    if (hFile) {
        fprintf (hFile, string);
        fflush (hFile);
    }
    printf (string);
}

impact:
a regular user of the system can create a symbolic link to file on which
hylafax has write access leading to overwriting of this file

!!! VENDOR IS NOT NOTIFIED !!!

Javor Ninov aka DrFrancky
drfrancky shift+2 securax.org

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