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diff --git a/xml/htdocs/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-14.xml b/xml/htdocs/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-14.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f7588ac1 --- /dev/null +++ b/xml/htdocs/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-14.xml @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ +<?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="200503-14"> + <title>KDE dcopidlng: Insecure temporary file creation</title> + <synopsis> + The dcopidlng script is vulnerable to symlink attacks, potentially allowing + a local user to overwrite arbitrary files. + </synopsis> + <product type="ebuild">dcopidlng</product> + <announced>March 07, 2005</announced> + <revised>March 07, 2005: 01</revised> + <bug>81652</bug> + <access>local</access> + <affected> + <package name="kde-base/kdelibs" auto="yes" arch="*"> + <unaffected range="ge">3.3.2-r5</unaffected> + <unaffected range="rge">3.2.3-r7</unaffected> + <vulnerable range="lt">3.3.2-r5</vulnerable> + </package> + </affected> + <background> + <p> + KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and + Unix-like Operating Systems. DCOP is KDE's simple IPC/RPC mechanism. + dcopidlng is a DCOP helper script. + </p> + </background> + <description> + <p> + Davide Madrisan has discovered that the dcopidlng script creates + temporary files in a world-writable directory with predictable names. + </p> + </description> + <impact type="normal"> + <p> + A local attacker could create symbolic links in the temporary + files directory, pointing to a valid file somewhere on the filesystem. + When dcopidlng is executed, this would result in the file being + overwritten with the rights of the user running the utility, which + could be the root user. + </p> + </impact> + <workaround> + <p> + There is no known workaround at this time. + </p> + </workaround> + <resolution> + <p> + All kdelibs users should upgrade to the latest version: + </p> + <code> + # emerge --sync + # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose kde-base/kdelibs</code> + </resolution> + <references> + <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0365">CAN-2005-0365</uri> + </references> + <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Thu, 3 Mar 2005 21:01:57 +0000"> + jaervosz + </metadata> + <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sun, 6 Mar 2005 09:59:12 +0000"> + koon + </metadata> +</glsa> |