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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201203-18">
+ <title>Minitube: Insecure temporary file usage</title>
+ <synopsis>An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in Minitube,
+ possibly allowing symlink attacks.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">Minitube</product>
+ <announced>2012-03-16</announced>
+ <revised count="1">2012-03-16</revised>
+ <bug>388867</bug>
+ <access>local</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="media-video/minitube" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">1.6</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">1.6</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>Minitube is a Qt4 YouTube desktop client.</p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>Tomáš Pružina reported that Minitube does not handle 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 Minitube users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=media-video/minitube-1.6"
+ </code>
+
+ <p>NOTE: This is a legacy GLSA. Updates for all affected architectures are
+ available since November 11, 2011. It is likely that your system is
+ already no longer affected by this issue.
+ </p>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube-1-6-released">Minitube 1.6
+ Release
+ </uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata timestamp="2012-03-06T21:07:35Z" tag="requester">ackle</metadata>
+ <metadata timestamp="2012-03-16T11:06:53Z" tag="submitter">ackle</metadata>
+</glsa>