metadata/glsa/glsa-200909-11.xml

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<glsa id="200909-11">
  <title>GCC-XML: Insecure temporary file usage</title>
  <synopsis>
    An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in GCC-XML allowing for
    symlink attacks.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">gccxml</product>
  <announced>September 09, 2009</announced>
  <revised>September 09, 2009: 01</revised>
  <bug>245765</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-cpp/gccxml" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.9.0_pre20090516</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.9.0_pre20090516</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    GCC-XML is an XML output extension to the C++ front-end of GCC.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that find_flags in GCC-XML does not handle
    "/tmp/*.cxx" temporary files securely.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary
    files 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 GCC-XML users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=dev-cpp/gccxml-0.9.0_pre20090516&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4957">CVE-2008-4957</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Mon, 25 May 2009 20:39:27 +0000">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:04:45 +0000">
    a3li
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:38:17 +0000">
    a3li
  </metadata>
</glsa>