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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200803-11">
  <title>Vobcopy: Insecure temporary file creation</title>
  <synopsis>
    Vobcopy uses temporary files in an insecure manner, allowing for a symlink
    attack.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">vobcopy</product>
  <announced>2008-03-05</announced>
  <revised>2008-03-05: 01</revised>
  <bug>197578</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-video/vobcopy" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.1.0</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.1.0</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Vobcopy is a tool for decrypting and copying DVD .vob files to a hard
    disk.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Joey Hess reported that vobcopy appends data to the file
    "/tmp/vobcopy.bla" in an insecure manner.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct symlink
    attacks and append data to arbitrary files with the privileges of the
    user running Vobcopy.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Vobcopy users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=media-video/vobcopy-1.1.0"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5718">CVE-2007-5718</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-03-04T14:25:49Z">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-03-04T22:37:51Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-03-04T22:38:00Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>