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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200812-12">
+ <title>Honeyd: Insecure temporary file creation</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in Honeyd, possibly
+ leading to symlink attacks.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">honeyd</product>
+ <announced>2008-12-12</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2008-12-12</revised>
+ <bug>237481</bug>
+ <access>local</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="net-analyzer/honeyd" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">1.5c-r1</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">1.5c-r1</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ Honeyd is a small daemon that creates virtual hosts on a network.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported an insecure temporary file usage within the
+ "test.sh" script.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ A local attacker could perform symlink attacks and overwrite arbitrary
+ files 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 Honeyd users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-analyzer/honeyd-1.5c-r1"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3928">CVE-2008-3928</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-10-18T20:32:05Z">
+ keytoaster
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-10-21T20:17:52Z">
+ keytoaster
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-12-11T20:14:32Z">
+ p-y
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>