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| <title>Claws Mail: Insecure temporary file creation</title> |
| <synopsis> |
| Claws Mail uses temporary files in an insecure manner, allowing for a |
| symlink attack. |
| </synopsis> |
| <product type="ebuild">claws-mail</product> |
| <announced>January 09, 2008</announced> |
| <revised>January 09, 2008: 01</revised> |
| <bug>201244</bug> |
| <access>local</access> |
| <affected> |
| <package name="mail-client/claws-mail" auto="yes" arch="*"> |
| <unaffected range="ge">3.0.2-r1</unaffected> |
| <vulnerable range="lt">3.0.2-r1</vulnerable> |
| </package> |
| </affected> |
| <background> |
| <p> |
| Claws Mail is a GTK based e-mail client. |
| </p> |
| </background> |
| <description> |
| <p> |
| Nico Golde from Debian reported that the sylprint.pl script that is |
| part of the Claws Mail tools creates temporary files in an insecure |
| manner. |
| </p> |
| </description> |
| <impact type="normal"> |
| <p> |
| A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct symlink |
| attacks to overwrite files with the privileges of the user running |
| Claws Mail. |
| </p> |
| </impact> |
| <workaround> |
| <p> |
| There is no known workaround at this time. |
| </p> |
| </workaround> |
| <resolution> |
| <p> |
| All Claws Mail users should upgrade to the latest version: |
| </p> |
| <code> |
| # emerge --sync |
| # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/claws-mail-3.0.2-r1"</code> |
| </resolution> |
| <references> |
| <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6208">CVE-2007-6208</uri> |
| </references> |
| <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:01:06 +0000"> |
| rbu |
| </metadata> |
| <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:07:07 +0000"> |
| p-y |
| </metadata> |
| <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:07:18 +0000"> |
| p-y |
| </metadata> |
| </glsa> |