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[ GLSA 200812-12 ] Honeyd: Insecure temporary file creation

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200812-12


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Severity: Normal
Title: Honeyd: Insecure temporary file creation
Date: December 12, 2008
Bugs: #237481
ID: 200812-12


Synopsis

An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in Honeyd, possibly
leading to symlink attacks.

Background

Honeyd is a small daemon that creates virtual hosts on a network.

Affected packages

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 Package              /  Vulnerable  /                  Unaffected
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1 net-analyzer/honeyd < 1.5c-r1 >= 1.5c-r1

Description

Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported an insecure temporary file usage within the
"test.sh" script.

Impact

A local attacker could perform symlink attacks and overwrite arbitrary
files with the privileges of the user running the application.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Honeyd users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-analyzer/honeyd-1.5c-r1&quot;

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2008-3928
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3928

Availability

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

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-12.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

Copyright 2008 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5