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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 count="01">2008-03-05</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>