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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-200909-08.xml
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:15:15
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3 Added: glsa-200909-08.xml
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5 GLSA 200909-08
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10 file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/security/en/glsa/glsa-200909-08.xml?rev=1.1&view=markup
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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="200909-08">
21 <title>C* music player: Insecure temporary file usage</title>
22 <synopsis>
23 An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in the C* music player,
24 allowing for symlink attacks.
25 </synopsis>
26 <product type="ebuild">cmus</product>
27 <announced>September 09, 2009</announced>
28 <revised>September 09, 2009: 01</revised>
29 <bug>250474</bug>
30 <access>local</access>
31 <affected>
32 <package name="media-sound/cmus" auto="yes" arch="*">
33 <unaffected range="ge">2.2.0-r1</unaffected>
34 <vulnerable range="lt">2.2.0-r1</vulnerable>
35 </package>
36 </affected>
37 <background>
38 <p>
39 The C* Music Player (cmus) is a modular and very configurable
40 ncurses-based audio player.
41 </p>
42 </background>
43 <description>
44 <p>
45 Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that cmus-status-display does not handle
46 the "/tmp/cmus-status" temporary file securely.
47 </p>
48 </description>
49 <impact type="normal">
50 <p>
51 A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary
52 files with the privileges of the user running the application.
53 </p>
54 </impact>
55 <workaround>
56 <p>
57 There is no known workaround at this time.
58 </p>
59 </workaround>
60 <resolution>
61 <p>
62 All C* music player users should upgrade to the latest version:
63 </p>
64 <code>
65 # emerge --sync
66 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose =media-sound/cmus-2.2.0-r1</code>
67 </resolution>
68 <references>
69 <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5375">CVE-2008-5375</uri>
70 </references>
71 <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:29:45 +0000">
72 craig
73 </metadata>
74 <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:44:23 +0000">
75 a3li
76 </metadata>
77 <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:37:47 +0000">
78 a3li
79 </metadata>
80 </glsa>