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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200812-14">
<title>aview: Insecure temporary file usage</title>
<synopsis>
An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in aview, leading to
symlink attacks.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">aview</product>
<announced>2008-12-14</announced>
<revised>2008-12-14: 01</revised>
<bug>235808</bug>
<access>local</access>
<affected>
<package name="media-gfx/aview" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">1.3.0_rc1-r1</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">1.3.0_rc1-r1</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
aview is an ASCII image viewer and animation player.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that aview uses the "/tmp/aview$$.pgm" file
in an insecure manner when processing files.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>
A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary
files on the system with the privileges of the user running the
application.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
There is no known workaround at this time.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
All aview users should upgrade to the latest version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-gfx/aview-1.3.0_rc1-r1"</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4935">CVE-2008-4935</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-09-22T12:39:57Z">
keytoaster
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-10-21T20:48:01Z">
keytoaster
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-12-11T20:00:09Z">
p-y
</metadata>
</glsa>
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