<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200812-12"> <title>Honeyd: Insecure temporary file creation</title> <synopsis> An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in Honeyd, possibly leading to symlink attacks. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">honeyd</product> <announced>2008-12-12</announced> <revised count="01">2008-12-12</revised> <bug>237481</bug> <access>local</access> <affected> <package name="net-analyzer/honeyd" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">1.5c-r1</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">1.5c-r1</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> Honeyd is a small daemon that creates virtual hosts on a network. </p> </background> <description> <p> Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported an insecure temporary file usage within the "test.sh" script. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> A local attacker could perform symlink attacks and 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 Honeyd users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/honeyd-1.5c-r1"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3928">CVE-2008-3928</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-10-18T20:32:05Z"> keytoaster </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-10-21T20:17:52Z"> keytoaster </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-12-11T20:14:32Z"> p-y </metadata> </glsa>