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Posted on 09 December 2007
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200712-07
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http://security.gentoo.org/
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Severity: Normal
Title: Lookup: Insecure temporary file creation
Date: December 09, 2007
Bugs: #197306
ID: 200712-07

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Synopsis
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Lookup uses temporary files in an insecure manner, allowing for a
symlink attack.

Background
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Lookup is a search interface to books and dictionnaries for Emacs.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 app-emacs/lookup < 1.4.1 >= 1.4.1

Description
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Tatsuya Kinoshita reported that the ndeb-binary function does not
handle temporay files correctly.

Impact
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A local attacker could use a symlink attack to overwrite files with the
privileges of the user running Lookup.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All Lookup users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emacs/lookup-1.4.1"

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2007-0237
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0237

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

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-07.xml

Concerns?
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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
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2007 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

 

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