gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200909-09.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200909-09">
  <title>Screenie: Insecure temporary file usage</title>
  <synopsis>
    An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in Screenie, allowing
    for symlink attacks.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">screenie</product>
  <announced>2009-09-09</announced>
  <revised count="01">2009-09-09</revised>
  <bug>250476</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-misc/screenie" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.30.0-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.30.0-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Screenie is a small screen frontend that is designed to be a session
    handler.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that Screenie does not handle
    "/tmp/.screenie.#####" temporary files securely.
    </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 Screenie users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-misc/screenie-1.30.0-r1"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5371">CVE-2008-5371</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2009-06-12T22:09:23Z">
    craig
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2009-08-28T07:52:34Z">
    a3li
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2009-08-31T03:37:54Z">
    a3li
  </metadata>
</glsa>