Gentoo GLSA-200604-13 Normal: Fbida Insecure Temporary File Attack

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200604-13 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: fbida: Insecure temporary file creation Date: April 23, 2006 Bugs: #129470 ID: 200604-13

Synopsis ======= fbida is vulnerable to linking attacks, potentially allowing a local user to overwrite arbitrary files.
Background ========= fbida is a collection of image viewers and editors for the framebuffer console and X11.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-gfx/fbida < 2.03-r3 >= 2.03-r3
========== Jan Braun has discovered that the "fbgs" script provided by fbida insecurely creates temporary files in the "/var/tmp" directory.
Impact ===== A local...