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1.8 KiB
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
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<glsa id="200812-14">
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<title>aview: Insecure temporary file usage</title>
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<synopsis>
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An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in aview, leading to
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symlink attacks.
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</synopsis>
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<product type="ebuild">aview</product>
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<announced>2008-12-14</announced>
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<revised count="01">2008-12-14</revised>
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<bug>235808</bug>
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<access>local</access>
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<affected>
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<package name="media-gfx/aview" auto="yes" arch="*">
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<unaffected range="ge">1.3.0_rc1-r1</unaffected>
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<vulnerable range="lt">1.3.0_rc1-r1</vulnerable>
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</package>
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</affected>
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<background>
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<p>
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aview is an ASCII image viewer and animation player.
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</p>
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</background>
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<description>
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<p>
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Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that aview uses the "/tmp/aview$$.pgm" file
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in an insecure manner when processing files.
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</p>
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</description>
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<impact type="normal">
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<p>
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A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary
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files on the system with the privileges of the user running the
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application.
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</p>
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</impact>
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<workaround>
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<p>
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There is no known workaround at this time.
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</p>
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</workaround>
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<resolution>
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<p>
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All aview users should upgrade to the latest version:
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</p>
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<code>
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# emerge --sync
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-gfx/aview-1.3.0_rc1-r1"</code>
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</resolution>
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<references>
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<uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4935">CVE-2008-4935</uri>
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</references>
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<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-09-22T12:39:57Z">
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keytoaster
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</metadata>
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<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-10-21T20:48:01Z">
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keytoaster
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</metadata>
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<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-12-11T20:00:09Z">
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p-y
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</metadata>
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</glsa>
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