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Added: glsa-200909-10.xml |
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GLSA 200909-10 |
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Revision Changes Path |
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1.1 xml/htdocs/security/en/glsa/glsa-200909-10.xml |
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file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/security/en/glsa/glsa-200909-10.xml?rev=1.1&view=markup |
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plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/security/en/glsa/glsa-200909-10.xml?rev=1.1&content-type=text/plain |
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Index: glsa-200909-10.xml |
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=================================================================== |
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> |
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<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?> |
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<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?> |
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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> |
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<glsa id="200909-10"> |
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<title>LMBench: Insecure temporary file usage</title> |
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<synopsis> |
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Multiple insecure temporary file usage issues have been reported in |
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LMBench, allowing for symlink attacks. |
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</synopsis> |
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<product type="ebuild">lmbench</product> |
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<announced>September 09, 2009</announced> |
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<revised>September 09, 2009: 01</revised> |
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<bug>246015</bug> |
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<access>local</access> |
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<affected> |
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<package name="app-benchmarks/lmbench" auto="yes" arch="*"> |
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<vulnerable range="le">3</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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LMBench is a suite of simple, portable benchmarks for UNIX platforms. |
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</p> |
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</background> |
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<description> |
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<p> |
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Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that the rccs and STUFF scripts do not |
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handle "/tmp/sdiff.#####" temporary files securely. NOTE: There might |
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be further occurances of insecure temporary file usage. |
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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 perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary |
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files with the privileges of the user running the application. |
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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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LMBench has been removed from Portage. We recommend that users unmerge |
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LMBench: |
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</p> |
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<code> |
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# emerge --unmerge app-benchmarks/lmbench</code> |
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</resolution> |
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<references> |
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<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4968">CVE-2008-4968</uri> |
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</references> |
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<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:54:15 +0000"> |
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rbu |
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</metadata> |
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<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:58:27 +0000"> |
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a3li |
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</metadata> |
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<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:38:05 +0000"> |
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a3li |
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</metadata> |
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</glsa> |