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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200712-11">
+ <title>Portage: Information disclosure</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ Portage may disclose sensitive information when updating configuration
+ files.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">portage</product>
+ <announced>2007-12-13</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2007-12-13</revised>
+ <bug>193589</bug>
+ <access>local</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="sys-apps/portage" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">2.1.3.11</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">2.1.3.11</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ Portage is the default Gentoo package management system.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Mike Frysinger reported that the "etc-update" utility uses temporary
+ files with the standard umask, which results in the files being
+ world-readable when merging configuration files in a default setup.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ A local attacker could access sensitive information when configuration
+ files are being merged.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All Portage users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-apps/portage-2.1.3.11"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6249">CVE-2007-6249</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-12-10T21:27:57Z">
+ p-y
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-12-10T21:28:40Z">
+ p-y
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-12-11T22:39:19Z">
+ p-y
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>