Executive Summary

Summary
Title Hugin: Insecure temporary file creation
Informations
Name GLSA-200712-01 First vendor Publication 2007-12-05
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2007-12-05
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 Hugin, potentially allowing for a Denial of Service.

Background

Hugin is a GUI for creating and processing panoramic images.

Description

Suse Linux reported that Hugin creates the
"hugin_debug_optim_results.txt" temporary file in an insecure manner.

Impact

A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability with a symlink attack, potentially overwriting an arbitrary file with the privileges of the user running the application.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Hugin users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-gfx/hugin-0.6.1-r1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2007-5200 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5200

Availability

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

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-01.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-01.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 2

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-02-27 Name : Fedora Update for hugin FEDORA-2007-2807
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2007_2807_hugin_fc8.nasl
2009-02-27 Name : Fedora Update for hugin FEDORA-2007-2989
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2007_2989_hugin_fc7.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200712-01 (hugin)
File : nvt/glsa_200712_01.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
42224 Hugin hugin_debug_optim_results.txt Symlink Arbitrary File Overwrite

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2007-12-07 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200712-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-11-12 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2007-2989.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-11-07 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2007-2807.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-10-17 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_hugin-4518.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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