gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200511-19.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200511-19">
  <title>eix: Insecure temporary file creation</title>
  <synopsis>
    eix has an insecure temporary file creation vulnerability, potentially
    allowing a local user to overwrite arbitrary files.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">eix</product>
  <announced>November 22, 2005</announced>
  <revised>May 22, 2006: 02</revised>
  <bug>112061</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-portage/eix" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.5.0_pre2</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="rge">0.3.0-r2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.5.0_pre2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    eix is a small utility for searching ebuilds with indexing for fast
    results.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Eric Romang discovered that eix creates a temporary file with a
    predictable name. eix creates a temporary file in /tmp/eix.*.sync where
    * is the process ID of the shell running eix.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A local attacker can watch the process list and determine the process
    ID of the shell running eix while the "emerge --sync" command is
    running, then create a link from the corresponding temporary file to a
    system file, which would result in the file being overwritten with the
    rights of the user running the application.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All eix users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose app-portage/eix</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3785">CVE-2005-3785</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:11:10 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:48:28 +0000">
    adir
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:46:22 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
</glsa>