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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>