Claws Mail: Insecure temporary file creation

Claws Mail: Insecure temporary file creation Claws Mail uses temporary files in an insecure manner, allowing for a symlink attack. claws-mail 2008-01-09 2008-01-09 201244 local 3.0.2-r1 3.0.2-r1

Claws Mail is a GTK based e-mail client.

Nico Golde from Debian reported that the sylprint.pl script that is part of the Claws Mail tools creates temporary files in an insecure manner.

A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct symlink attacks to overwrite files with the privileges of the user running Claws Mail.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Claws Mail users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/claws-mail-3.0.2-r1"

CVE-2007-6208 rbu p-y p-y