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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200909-07">
+ <title>TkMan: Insecure temporary file usage</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in TkMan, allowing for
+ symlink attacks.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">tkman</product>
+ <announced>2009-09-09</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2009-09-09</revised>
+ <bug>247540</bug>
+ <access>local</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="app-text/tkman" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">2.2-r1</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">2.2-r1</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ TkMan is a graphical, hypertext manual page and Texinfo browser for
+ UNIX.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that TkMan does not handle the
+ "/tmp/tkman#####" and "/tmp/ll" temporary files securely.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to 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 TkMan users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-text/tkman-2.2-r1"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5137">CVE-2008-5137</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2009-07-19T18:23:29Z">
+ a3li
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2009-08-28T07:32:36Z">
+ a3li
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2009-08-31T03:37:41Z">
+ a3li
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>