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authorAlex Legler <alex@a3li.li>2015-03-08 22:02:38 +0100
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+
+<glsa id="200809-08">
+ <title>Amarok: Insecure temporary file creation</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ Amarok uses temporary files in an insecure manner, allowing for a symlink
+ attack.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">amarok</product>
+ <announced>September 08, 2008</announced>
+ <revised>September 08, 2008: 01</revised>
+ <bug>234689</bug>
+ <access>local</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="media-sound/amarok" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">1.4.10</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">1.4.10</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ Amarok is an advanced music player.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Dwayne Litzenberger reported that the
+ MagnatuneBrowser::listDownloadComplete() function in
+ magnatunebrowser/magnatunebrowser.cpp uses the album_info.xml temporary
+ file in an insecure manner.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ A local attacker could perform a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary
+ files on the system with the privileges of the user running the
+ application.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All Amarok users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=media-sound/amarok-1.4.10&quot;</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3699">CVE-2008-3699</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:05:46 +0000">
+ keytoaster
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:54:43 +0000">
+ p-y
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:54:55 +0000">
+ p-y
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>