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authorAlex Legler <alex@a3li.li>2015-03-08 22:02:38 +0100
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+
+<glsa id="200412-05">
+ <title>mirrorselect: Insecure temporary file creation</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ mirrorselect is vulnerable to symlink attacks, potentially allowing a local
+ user to overwrite arbitrary files.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">mirrorselect</product>
+ <announced>December 07, 2004</announced>
+ <revised>May 22, 2006: 04</revised>
+ <bug>73545</bug>
+ <access>local</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="app-portage/mirrorselect" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">0.89</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">0.89</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ mirrorselect is a tool to help select distfiles mirrors for Gentoo.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Ervin Nemeth discovered that mirrorselect creates temporary files in
+ world-writable directories with predictable names.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ A local attacker could create symbolic links in the temporary files
+ directory, pointing to a valid file somewhere on the filesystem. When
+ mirrorselect is executed, this would result in the file being
+ overwritten with the rights of the user running the utility, which
+ could be the root user.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All mirrorselect users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=app-portage/mirrorselect-0.89&quot;</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-1167">CVE-2004-1167</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 6 Dec 2004 21:43:32 +0000">
+ lewk
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Mon, 6 Dec 2004 21:51:32 +0000">
+ lewk
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>