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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200812-12">
<title>Honeyd: Insecure temporary file creation</title>
<synopsis>
An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in Honeyd, possibly
leading to symlink attacks.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">honeyd</product>
<announced>December 12, 2008</announced>
<revised>December 12, 2008: 01</revised>
<bug>237481</bug>
<access>local</access>
<affected>
<package name="net-analyzer/honeyd" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">1.5c-r1</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">1.5c-r1</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
Honeyd is a small daemon that creates virtual hosts on a network.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported an insecure temporary file usage within the
"test.sh" script.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>
A local attacker could perform symlink attacks and 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 Honeyd users should upgrade to the latest version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-analyzer/honeyd-1.5c-r1&quot;</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3928">CVE-2008-3928</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:32:05 +0000">
keytoaster
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:17:52 +0000">
keytoaster
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:14:32 +0000">
p-y
</metadata>
</glsa>