Gentoo: 200709-08 Critical: Id3lib Symlink Attack Advisory
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September 15, 2007
A vulnerability has been discovered in id3lib allowing local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200709-08
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: id3lib: Insecure temporary file creation
Date: September 15, 2007
Bugs: #189610
ID: 200709-08
Synopsis
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A vulnerability has been discovered in id3lib allowing local users to
overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
Background
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id3lib is an open-source, cross-platform software development library
for reading, writing, and manipulating ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags.
Affected packages
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1 media-libs/id3lib < 3.8.3-r6 >= 3.8.3-r6
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Nikolaus Schulz discovered that the function RenderV2ToFile() in file
src/tag_file.cpp c...
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