gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200801-03.xml

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<glsa id="200801-03">
  <title>Claws Mail: Insecure temporary file creation</title>
  <synopsis>
    Claws Mail uses temporary files in an insecure manner, allowing for a
    symlink attack.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">claws-mail</product>
  <announced>January 09, 2008</announced>
  <revised>January 09, 2008: 01</revised>
  <bug>201244</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="mail-client/claws-mail" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">3.0.2-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">3.0.2-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Claws Mail is a GTK based e-mail client.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Nico Golde from Debian reported that the sylprint.pl script that is
    part of the Claws Mail tools creates temporary files in an insecure
    manner.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct symlink
    attacks to overwrite files with the privileges of the user running
    Claws Mail.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Claws Mail users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=mail-client/claws-mail-3.0.2-r1&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6208">CVE-2007-6208</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:01:06 +0000">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:07:07 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:07:18 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>