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Gentoo GLSA-200712-07: Moderate Risk From Lookup Symlink Attack

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Calendar Grey December 9, 2007
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Gentoo Alert: mitigate symlink vulnerability in Resolution through improved transient file management.
Lookup uses temporary files in an insecure manner, allowing for a symlink attack.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200712-07
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: Lookup: Insecure temporary file creation
      Date: December 09, 2007
      Bugs: #197306
        ID: 200712-07


Synopsis
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Lookup uses temporary files in an insecure manner, allowing for a
symlink attack.

Background
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Lookup is a search interface to books and dictionnaries for Emacs.

Affected packages
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     Package           /  Vulnerable  /                     Unaffected
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  1  app-emacs/lookup       < 1.4.1                           >= 1.4.1

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Tatsuya Kinoshita reported that the ndeb-binary function does not
handle temporay files correctly.

Impact
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A local attacker could use a sy...
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