Executive Summary

Summary
Title Muttprint: Insecure temporary file usage
Informations
Name GLSA-200903-35 First vendor Publication 2009-03-23
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2009-03-23
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 in Muttprint allows for symlink attacks.

Background

Muttprint formats the output of mail clients to a good-looking printing using LaTeX.

Description

Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported an insecure usage of the temporary file
"/tmp/muttprint.log" in the muttprint 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 Muttprint users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-misc/muttprint-0.72d-r1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2008-5368 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5368

Availability

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

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-35.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-35.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
2009-03-31 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200903-35 (muttprint)
File : nvt/glsa_200903_35.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
50665 muttprint muttprint /tmp/muttprint.log Temporary File Symlink Arbitrary File ...

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2009-03-24 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200903-35.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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