Executive Summary

Summary
Title gEDA: Insecure temporary file creation
Informations
Name GLSA-200903-08 First vendor Publication 2009-03-07
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2009-03-07
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 gEDA, allowing for symlink attacks.

Background

gEDA is an Electronic Design Automation tool used for electrical circuit design.

Description

Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported an insecure temporary file usage within the sch2eaglepos.sh script.

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 gEDA users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sci-electronics/geda-1.4.0-r1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2008-5148 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5148

Availability

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

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-08.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-08.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
2009-03-13 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200903-08 (geda)
File : nvt/glsa_200903_08.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for geda-gnetlist FEDORA-2008-9694
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_9694_geda-gnetlist_fc8.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for geda-gnetlist FEDORA-2008-9730
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_9730_geda-gnetlist_fc9.nasl
2009-02-16 Name : Fedora Update for geda-gnetlist FEDORA-2008-10000
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_10000_geda-gnetlist_fc10.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
49978 geda-gnetlist sch2eaglepos.sh Temporary File Symlink Arbitrary File Overwrite

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2012-09-24 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-10010.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-03-08 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200903-08.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-11-21 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-9694.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-11-21 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-9730.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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