Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200709-04

                                        http://security.gentoo.org/

Severity: Normal
Title: po4a: Insecure temporary file creation
Date: September 13, 2007
Bugs: #189440
ID: 200709-04

Synopsis

A vulnerability has been discovered in po4a, allowing for a symlink
attack.

Background

po4a is a set of tools for helping with the translation of
documentation.

Affected packages

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1 app-text/po4a < 0.32-r1 >= 0.32-r1

Description

The po4a development team reported a race condition in the gettextize()
function when creating the file "/tmp/gettextization.failed.po".

Impact

A local attacker could perform a symlink attack, possibly overwriting
files with the permissions of the user running po4a.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All po4a users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/po4a-0.32-r1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2007-4462
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4462

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200709-04.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
[email protected] or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License

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