gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200812-14.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200812-14">
  <title>aview: Insecure temporary file usage</title>
  <synopsis>
    An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in aview, leading to
    symlink attacks.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">aview</product>
  <announced>2008-12-14</announced>
  <revised count="01">2008-12-14</revised>
  <bug>235808</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-gfx/aview" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.3.0_rc1-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.3.0_rc1-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    aview is an ASCII image viewer and animation player.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that aview uses the "/tmp/aview$$.pgm" file
    in an insecure manner when processing files.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary
    files on the system 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 aview users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=media-gfx/aview-1.3.0_rc1-r1"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4935">CVE-2008-4935</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-09-22T12:39:57Z">
    keytoaster
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-10-21T20:48:01Z">
    keytoaster
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-12-11T20:00:09Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>