description: openvas-scanner before 2011-09-11 creates a temporary file insecurely when generating OVAL system characteristics document with the ovaldi integrated tool enabled. A local attacker could use this flaw to conduct symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files on the system.
problem types: Other
affected:
{
product: openvas-scanner
vendor: openvas-scanner
versions:
status: affected, version: through 2011-09-11
}