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1.8 KiB
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62 lines
1.8 KiB
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
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<glsa id="200712-07">
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<title>Lookup: Insecure temporary file creation</title>
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<synopsis>
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Lookup uses temporary files in an insecure manner, allowing for a symlink
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attack.
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</synopsis>
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<product type="ebuild">lookup</product>
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<announced>2007-12-09</announced>
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<revised count="01">2007-12-09</revised>
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<bug>197306</bug>
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<access>local</access>
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<affected>
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<package name="app-emacs/lookup" auto="yes" arch="*">
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<unaffected range="ge">1.4.1</unaffected>
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<vulnerable range="lt">1.4.1</vulnerable>
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</package>
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</affected>
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<background>
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<p>
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Lookup is a search interface to books and dictionnaries for Emacs.
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</p>
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</background>
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<description>
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<p>
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Tatsuya Kinoshita reported that the ndeb-binary function does not
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handle temporay files correctly.
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</p>
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</description>
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<impact type="normal">
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<p>
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A local attacker could use a symlink attack to overwrite files with the
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privileges of the user running Lookup.
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</p>
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</impact>
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<workaround>
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<p>
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There is no known workaround at this time.
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</p>
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</workaround>
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<resolution>
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<p>
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All Lookup users should upgrade to the latest version:
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</p>
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<code>
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# emerge --sync
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emacs/lookup-1.4.1"</code>
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</resolution>
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<references>
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<uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0237">CVE-2007-0237</uri>
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</references>
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<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-11-19T22:00:43Z">
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p-y
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</metadata>
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<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-11-21T00:09:14Z">
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rbu
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</metadata>
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<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-12-08T23:10:28Z">
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p-y
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</metadata>
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</glsa>
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