gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200712-01.xml

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<glsa id="200712-01">
  <title>Hugin: Insecure temporary file creation</title>
  <synopsis>
    A vulnerability has been discovered in Hugin, potentially allowing for a
    Denial of Service.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">hugin</product>
  <announced>December 05, 2007</announced>
  <revised>December 05, 2007: 01</revised>
  <bug>195996</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-gfx/hugin" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="rge">0.6.1-r1</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="ge">0.7_beta4-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.7_beta4-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Hugin is a GUI for creating and processing panoramic images.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Suse Linux reported that Hugin creates the
    "hugin_debug_optim_results.txt" temporary file in an insecure manner.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability with a symlink
    attack, potentially overwriting an arbitrary file 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 Hugin users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=media-gfx/hugin-0.6.1-r1&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5200">CVE-2007-5200</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sat, 17 Nov 2007 23:47:03 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sat, 17 Nov 2007 23:47:10 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>