[26909] in bugtraq
GLSA: scrollkeeper
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Ahlberg)
Wed Sep 4 11:58:01 2002
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From: Daniel Ahlberg <aliz@gentoo.org>
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 12:39:04 +0200
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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT
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PACKAGE :scrollkeeper
SUMMARY :insecure temporary file creation
DATE :2002-09-04 10:30 UTC
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OVERVIEW
The scrollkeeper-get-cl program
creates temporary files in an insecure manner in /tmp using guessable
filenames.
DETAIL
The scrollkeeper-get-cl program creates temporary files in an insecure
manner in /tmp using guessable filenames.
Since scrollkeeper is called automatically when a user logs into a Gnome
session, an attacker with local access can easily create and overwrite
files as another user.
More information can be found at:
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/290090/2002-09-01/2002-09-07/0
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2002-0662
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
app-text/scrollkeeper-0.3.11 and earlier update their systems
as follows:
emerge rsync
emerge scrollkeeper
emerge clean
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