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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200903-24">
+ <title>Shadow: Privilege escalation</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ An insecure temporary file usage in Shadow may allow local users to gain
+ root privileges.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">shadow</product>
+ <announced>2009-03-10</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2009-03-10</revised>
+ <bug>251320</bug>
+ <access>local</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="sys-apps/shadow" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">4.1.2.2</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">4.1.2.2</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ Shadow is a set of tools to deal with user accounts.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Paul Szabo reported a race condition in the "login" executable when
+ setting up tty permissions.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="high">
+ <p>
+ A local attacker belonging to the "utmp" group could use symlink
+ attacks to overwrite arbitrary files and possibly gain root privileges.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All Shadow users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-apps/shadow-4.1.2.2"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5394">CVE-2008-5394</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2009-02-12T19:41:17Z">
+ craig
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2009-03-08T19:05:06Z">
+ p-y
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2009-03-08T19:05:15Z">
+ p-y
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>