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gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200411-22.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200411-22">
<title>Davfs2, lvm-user: Insecure tempfile handling</title>
<synopsis>
Davfs2 and the lvmcreate_initrd script (included in the lvm-user package)
are both vulnerable to symlink attacks, potentially allowing a local user
to overwrite arbitrary files with the rights of the user running them.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">davfs2</product>
<announced>November 11, 2004</announced>
<revised>November 11, 2004: 01</revised>
<bug>68406</bug>
<bug>69149</bug>
<access>local</access>
<affected>
<package name="net-fs/davfs2" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">0.2.2-r1</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">0.2.2-r1</vulnerable>
</package>
<package name="sys-fs/lvm-user" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">1.0.7-r2</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">1.0.7-r2</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
Davfs2 is a file system driver that allows you to mount a WebDAV
server as a local disk drive. lvm-user is a package providing userland
utilities for LVM (Logical Volume Management) 1.x features.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
Florian Schilhabel from the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team found
that Davfs2 insecurely created .pid files in /tmp. Furthermore, Trustix
Secure Linux found that the lvmcreate_initrd script, included in the
lvm-user Gentoo package, also creates temporary files in
world-writeable directories with predictable names.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>
A local attacker could create symbolic links in the temporary
files directory, pointing to a valid file somewhere on the filesystem.
When Davfs2 or lvmcreate_initrd is called, this would result in the
file being overwritten with the rights of the user running the
software, which could be the root user.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
There is no known workaround at this time.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
All Davfs2 users should upgrade to the latest version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-fs/davfs2-0.2.2-r1"</code>
<p>
All lvm-user users should upgrade to the latest version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-fs/lvm-user-1.0.7-r2"</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0972">CAN-2004-0972</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Wed, 10 Nov 2004 09:15:59 +0000">
koon
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Thu, 11 Nov 2004 20:29:52 +0000">
jaervosz
</metadata>
</glsa>