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Solaris is the UNIX Operating System variant distributed and maintained by Sun Microsystems. aspppls creates insecure temporary files. aspppls is a setuid root application that when executed will create temporary files with root privileges. This could result in a local attacker launching a symbolic link attack to overwrite root-owned files. It should be noted that this vulnerability is likely related to Bugtraq ID 292 titled "Solaris aspppd Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability."

Solaris is the UNIX Operating System variant distributed and maintained by Sun Microsystems. aspppls creates insecure temporary files. aspppls is a setuid root application that when executed will create temporary files with root privileges. This could result in a local attacker launching a symbolic link attack to overwrite root-owned files. It should be noted that this vulnerability is likely related to Bugtraq ID 292 titled "Solaris aspppd Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability."