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From: "Alex Legler (a3li)" <a3li@g.o>
To: gentoo-commits@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-commits] gentoo commit in xml/htdocs/security/en/glsa: glsa-200909-10.xml
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:16:13
Message-Id: E1MlN1v-0000xI-Rm@stork.gentoo.org
1 a3li 09/09/09 13:16:11
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3 Added: glsa-200909-10.xml
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5 GLSA 200909-10
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8 1.1 xml/htdocs/security/en/glsa/glsa-200909-10.xml
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10 file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/security/en/glsa/glsa-200909-10.xml?rev=1.1&view=markup
11 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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13 Index: glsa-200909-10.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="200909-10">
21 <title>LMBench: Insecure temporary file usage</title>
22 <synopsis>
23 Multiple insecure temporary file usage issues have been reported in
24 LMBench, allowing for symlink attacks.
25 </synopsis>
26 <product type="ebuild">lmbench</product>
27 <announced>September 09, 2009</announced>
28 <revised>September 09, 2009: 01</revised>
29 <bug>246015</bug>
30 <access>local</access>
31 <affected>
32 <package name="app-benchmarks/lmbench" auto="yes" arch="*">
33 <vulnerable range="le">3</vulnerable>
34 </package>
35 </affected>
36 <background>
37 <p>
38 LMBench is a suite of simple, portable benchmarks for UNIX platforms.
39 </p>
40 </background>
41 <description>
42 <p>
43 Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that the rccs and STUFF scripts do not
44 handle "/tmp/sdiff.#####" temporary files securely. NOTE: There might
45 be further occurances of insecure temporary file usage.
46 </p>
47 </description>
48 <impact type="normal">
49 <p>
50 A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to 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 LMBench has been removed from Portage. We recommend that users unmerge
62 LMBench:
63 </p>
64 <code>
65 # emerge --unmerge app-benchmarks/lmbench</code>
66 </resolution>
67 <references>
68 <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4968">CVE-2008-4968</uri>
69 </references>
70 <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:54:15 +0000">
71 rbu
72 </metadata>
73 <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:58:27 +0000">
74 a3li
75 </metadata>
76 <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:38:05 +0000">
77 a3li
78 </metadata>
79 </glsa>