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authorAlex Legler <alex@a3li.li>2015-03-08 22:02:38 +0100
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+
+<glsa id="200909-11">
+ <title>GCC-XML: Insecure temporary file usage</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in GCC-XML allowing for
+ symlink attacks.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">gccxml</product>
+ <announced>September 09, 2009</announced>
+ <revised>September 09, 2009: 01</revised>
+ <bug>245765</bug>
+ <access>local</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="dev-cpp/gccxml" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">0.9.0_pre20090516</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">0.9.0_pre20090516</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ GCC-XML is an XML output extension to the C++ front-end of GCC.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that find_flags in GCC-XML does not handle
+ "/tmp/*.cxx" 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 GCC-XML users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=dev-cpp/gccxml-0.9.0_pre20090516&quot;</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4957">CVE-2008-4957</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Mon, 25 May 2009 20:39:27 +0000">
+ rbu
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:04:45 +0000">
+ a3li
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:38:17 +0000">
+ a3li
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>