Executive Summary

Summary
Title UUDeview: Insecure temporary file creation
Informations
Name GLSA-200808-11 First vendor Publication 2008-08-11
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2008-08-11
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:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.4 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 3.4 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A vulnerability in UUDeview may allow local attackers to conduct symlink attacks.

Background

UUdeview is encoder and decoder supporting various binary formats.
NZBGet is a command-line based binary newsgrabber supporting .nzb files.

Description

UUdeview makes insecure usage of the tempnam() function when creating temporary files. NZBGet includes a copy of the vulnerable code.

Impact

A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to overwrite arbitrary files on the system.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All UUDview users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/uudeview-0.5.20-r1"

All NZBget users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=news-nntp/nzbget-0.4.0"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2008-2266 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2266

Availability

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

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-11.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-11.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

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

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 5
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200808-11 (nzbget uudeview)
File : nvt/glsa_200808_11.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
45154 UUDeview tempnam() Function Temporary File Symlink Arbitrary File Overwrite

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2008-08-12 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200808-11.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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