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<title>Muttprint: Insecure temporary file usage</title>
<synopsis>
An insecure temporary file usage in Muttprint allows for symlink attacks.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">muttprint</product>
<announced>2009-03-23</announced>
<revised count="01">2009-03-23</revised>
<bug>250554</bug>
<access>local</access>
<affected>
<package name="app-misc/muttprint" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">0.72d-r1</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">0.72d-r1</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
Muttprint formats the output of mail clients to a good-looking printing
using LaTeX.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported an insecure usage of the temporary file
"/tmp/muttprint.log" in the muttprint script.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>
A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary
files with the privileges of the user running the application.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
There is no known workaround at this time.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
All Muttprint users should upgrade to the latest version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-misc/muttprint-0.72d-r1"</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5368">CVE-2008-5368</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2009-03-22T20:25:26Z">
a3li
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2009-03-22T21:59:17Z">
a3li
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2009-03-22T21:59:46Z">
a3li
</metadata>
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