Gentoo: GLSA-200709-04 Normal: po4a Insecure File Creation Risk
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September 13, 2007
A vulnerability has been discovered in po4a, allowing for a symlink attack.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200709-04
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: po4a: Insecure temporary file creation
Date: September 13, 2007
Bugs: #189440
ID: 200709-04
Synopsis
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A vulnerability has been discovered in po4a, allowing for a symlink
attack.
Background
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po4a is a set of tools for helping with the translation of
documentation.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 app-text/po4a < 0.32-r1 >= 0.32-r1
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The po4a development team reported a race condition in the gettextize()
function when creating the file "/tmp/gettextization.failed.po".
Impact
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A local attacker could perform a symlin...
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