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From: "Tobias Heinlein (keytoaster)" <keytoaster@g.o>
To: gentoo-commits@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-commits] gentoo commit in xml/htdocs/security/en/glsa: glsa-200812-12.xml
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:49:19
Message-Id: E1LBEwk-0000gp-5C@stork.gentoo.org
1 keytoaster 08/12/12 20:49:14
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3 Added: glsa-200812-12.xml
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5 GLSA 200812-12
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8 1.1 xml/htdocs/security/en/glsa/glsa-200812-12.xml
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10 file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/security/en/glsa/glsa-200812-12.xml?rev=1.1&view=markup
11 plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/security/en/glsa/glsa-200812-12.xml?rev=1.1&content-type=text/plain
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13 Index: glsa-200812-12.xml
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15 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
16 <?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
17 <?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
18 <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
19
20 <glsa id="200812-12">
21 <title>Honeyd: Insecure temporary file creation</title>
22 <synopsis>
23 An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in Honeyd, possibly
24 leading to symlink attacks.
25 </synopsis>
26 <product type="ebuild">honeyd</product>
27 <announced>December 12, 2008</announced>
28 <revised>December 12, 2008: 01</revised>
29 <bug>237481</bug>
30 <access>local</access>
31 <affected>
32 <package name="net-analyzer/honeyd" auto="yes" arch="*">
33 <unaffected range="ge">1.5c-r1</unaffected>
34 <vulnerable range="lt">1.5c-r1</vulnerable>
35 </package>
36 </affected>
37 <background>
38 <p>
39 Honeyd is a small daemon that creates virtual hosts on a network.
40 </p>
41 </background>
42 <description>
43 <p>
44 Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported an insecure temporary file usage within the
45 "test.sh" script.
46 </p>
47 </description>
48 <impact type="normal">
49 <p>
50 A local attacker could perform symlink attacks and overwrite arbitrary
51 files with the privileges of the user running the application.
52 </p>
53 </impact>
54 <workaround>
55 <p>
56 There is no known workaround at this time.
57 </p>
58 </workaround>
59 <resolution>
60 <p>
61 All Honeyd users should upgrade to the latest version:
62 </p>
63 <code>
64 # emerge --sync
65 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-analyzer/honeyd-1.5c-r1&quot;</code>
66 </resolution>
67 <references>
68 <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3928">CVE-2008-3928</uri>
69 </references>
70 <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:32:05 +0000">
71 keytoaster
72 </metadata>
73 <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:17:52 +0000">
74 keytoaster
75 </metadata>
76 <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:14:32 +0000">
77 p-y
78 </metadata>
79 </glsa>