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gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201203-18.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201203-18">
<title>Minitube: Insecure temporary file usage</title>
<synopsis>An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in Minitube,
possibly allowing symlink attacks.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">Minitube</product>
<announced>March 16, 2012</announced>
<revised>March 16, 2012: 1</revised>
<bug>388867</bug>
<access>local</access>
<affected>
<package name="media-video/minitube" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">1.6</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">1.6</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>Minitube is a Qt4 YouTube desktop client.</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>Tomáš Pružina reported that Minitube does not handle 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 Minitube users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=media-video/minitube-1.6"
</code>
<p>NOTE: This is a legacy GLSA. Updates for all affected architectures are
available since November 11, 2011. It is likely that your system is
already no longer affected by this issue.
</p>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube-1-6-released">Minitube 1.6
Release
</uri>
</references>
<metadata timestamp="Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:07:35 +0000" tag="requester">ackle</metadata>
<metadata timestamp="Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:06:53 +0000" tag="submitter">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>