Executive Summary

Summary
Title Scilab: Insecure temporary file usage
Informations
Name GLSA-200901-14 First vendor Publication 2009-01-21
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2009-01-21
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:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 6.9 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 3.4 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in Scilab, allowing for symlink attacks.

Background

Scilab is a scientific software package for numerical computations.

Description

Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported an insecure temporary file usage within the scilink, scidoc and scidem scripts.

Impact

A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running the application.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Scilab users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync

# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sci-mathematics/scilab-4.1.2-r1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2008-4983 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4983

Availability

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

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200901-14.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200901-14.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

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

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-01-26 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200901-14 (scilab)
File : nvt/glsa_200901_14.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
49646 scilab-bin scidem Multiple Temporary File Symlink Arbitrary File Overwrite
49645 scilab-bin scidoc Multiple Temporary File Symlink Arbitrary File Overwrite
49644 scilab-bin scilink Multiple Temporary File Symlink Arbitrary File Overwrite

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2009-01-22 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200901-14.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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