Executive Summary

Summary
Title po4a: Insecure temporary file creation
Informations
Name GLSA-200709-04 First vendor Publication 2007-09-13
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2007-09-13
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 3.3 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 4.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 3.4 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A vulnerability has been discovered in po4a, allowing for a symlink attack.

Background

po4a is a set of tools for helping with the translation of documentation.

Description

The po4a development team reported a race condition in the gettextize()
function when creating the file "/tmp/gettextization.failed.po".

Impact

A local attacker could perform a symlink attack, possibly overwriting files with the permissions of the user running po4a.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All po4a users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/po4a-0.32-r1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2007-4462 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4462

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200709-04.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200709-04.xml

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200709-04 (po4a)
File : nvt/glsa_200709_04.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
39749 po4a lib/Locale/Po4a/Po.pm gettextization.failed.po Symlink Arbitrary File Ov...

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2007-09-24 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200709-04.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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