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<glsa id="200901-14">
  <title>Scilab: Insecure temporary file usage</title>
  <synopsis>
    An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in Scilab, allowing for
    symlink attacks.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">scilab</product>
  <announced>January 21, 2009</announced>
  <revised>January 21, 2009: 01</revised>
  <bug>245922</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="sci-mathematics/scilab" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">4.1.2-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">4.1.2-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Scilab is a scientific software package for numerical computations.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported an insecure temporary file usage within the
    scilink, scidoc and scidem scripts.
    </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 Scilab users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=sci-mathematics/scilab-4.1.2-r1&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4983">CVE-2008-4983</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:29:36 +0000">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:21:32 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:21:45 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>