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70 lines
2.3 KiB
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<?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="200410-10">
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<title>gettext: Insecure temporary file handling</title>
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<synopsis>
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The gettext utility is vulnerable to symlink attacks, potentially allowing
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a local user to overwrite or change permissions on arbitrary files with the
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rights of the user running gettext, which could be the root user.
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</synopsis>
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<product type="ebuild">gettext</product>
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<announced>2004-10-10</announced>
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<revised count="04">2006-05-22</revised>
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<bug>66355</bug>
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<bug>85766</bug>
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<access>local</access>
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<affected>
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<package name="sys-devel/gettext" auto="yes" arch="*">
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<unaffected range="ge">0.14.1-r1</unaffected>
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<unaffected range="rge">0.12.1-r2</unaffected>
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<vulnerable range="lt">0.14.1-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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gettext is a set of utilities for the GNU Translation Project which
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provides a set of tools and documentation to help produce multi-lingual
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messages in programs.
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</p>
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</background>
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<description>
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<p>
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gettext insecurely creates temporary files in world-writeable
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directories with predictable names.
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</p>
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</description>
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<impact type="low">
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<p>
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A local attacker could create symbolic links in the temporary files
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directory, pointing to a valid file somewhere on the filesystem. When
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gettext is called, this would result in file access with the rights of
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the user running the utility, which could be the root user.
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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 gettext 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 ">=sys-devel/gettext-0.14.1-r1"</code>
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</resolution>
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<references>
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<uri link="http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/7263">BugTraq Advisory</uri>
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<uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0966">CVE-2004-0966</uri>
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</references>
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<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2004-10-10T10:51:13Z">
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koon
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</metadata>
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<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2004-10-10T10:51:21Z">
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koon
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</metadata>
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<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2004-10-10T21:46:28Z">
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lewk
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</metadata>
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</glsa>
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