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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200411-13">
<title>Portage, Gentoolkit: Temporary file vulnerabilities</title>
<synopsis>
dispatch-conf (included in Portage) and qpkg (included in Gentoolkit) are
vulnerable to symlink attacks, potentially allowing a local user to
overwrite arbitrary files with the rights of the user running the script.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">portage gentoolkit</product>
<announced>2004-11-07</announced>
<revised count="02">2006-05-22</revised>
<bug>68846</bug>
<bug>69147</bug>
<access>local</access>
<affected>
<package name="sys-apps/portage" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">2.0.51-r3</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="le">2.0.51-r2</vulnerable>
</package>
<package name="app-portage/gentoolkit" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">0.2.0_pre10-r1</unaffected>
<unaffected range="rge">0.2.0_pre8-r1</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="le">0.2.0_pre10</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
Portage is Gentoo's package management tool. The dispatch-conf utility
allows for easy rollback of configuration file changes and automatic
updates of configurations files never modified by users. Gentoolkit is
a collection of Gentoo specific administration scripts, one of which is
the portage querying tool qpkg.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
dispatch-conf and qpkg use predictable filenames for temporary files.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>
A local attacker could create symbolic links in the temporary files
directory, pointing to a valid file somewhere on the filesystem. When
an affected script is called, this would result in the file to be
overwritten with the rights of the user running the dispatch-conf or
qpkg, which could be the root user.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
There is no known workaround at this time.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
All Portage users should upgrade to the latest version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-apps/portage-2.0.51-r3"</code>
<p>
All Gentoolkit users should upgrade to the latest version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8-r1"</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-1107">CVE-2004-1107</uri>
<uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-1108">CVE-2004-1108</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2004-11-02T14:02:06Z">
koon
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2004-11-02T17:41:31Z">
jaervosz
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2004-11-07T11:16:08Z">
jaervosz
</metadata>
</glsa>