<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200510-13"> <title>SPE: Insecure file permissions</title> <synopsis> SPE files are installed with world-writeable permissions, potentially leading to privilege escalation. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">spe</product> <announced>2005-10-15</announced> <revised count="02">2006-05-22</revised> <bug>108538</bug> <access>local</access> <affected> <package name="dev-util/spe" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">0.7.5c-r1</unaffected> <unaffected range="rge">0.5.1f-r1</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">0.7.5c-r1</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> SPE is a cross-platform Python Integrated Development Environment (IDE). </p> </background> <description> <p> It was reported that due to an oversight all SPE's files are set as world-writeable. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> A local attacker could modify the executable files, causing arbitrary code to be executed with the permissions of the user running SPE. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All SPE users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose dev-util/spe</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3291">CVE-2005-3291</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2005-10-11T21:00:30Z"> jaervosz </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2005-10-12T02:02:14Z"> adir </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2005-10-15T08:06:19Z"> koon </metadata> </glsa>