glsa-200808-11.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200808-11">
  <title>UUDeview: Insecure temporary file creation</title>
  <synopsis>
    A vulnerability in UUDeview may allow local attackers to conduct symlink
    attacks.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">nzbget uudeview</product>
  <announced>2008-08-11</announced>
  <revised count="01">2008-08-11</revised>
  <bug>222275</bug>
  <bug>224193</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-text/uudeview" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.5.20-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.5.20-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
    <package name="news-nntp/nzbget" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.4.0</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.4.0</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    UUdeview is encoder and decoder supporting various binary formats.
    NZBGet is a command-line based binary newsgrabber supporting .nzb
    files.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    UUdeview makes insecure usage of the tempnam() function when creating
    temporary files. NZBGet includes a copy of the vulnerable code.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to overwrite
    arbitrary files on the system.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All UUDview users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-text/uudeview-0.5.20-r1"</code>
    <p>
    All NZBget users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=news-nntp/nzbget-0.4.0"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2266">CVE-2008-2266</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-07-06T18:30:42Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-07-06T18:32:00Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-07-22T11:22:12Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>