Gentoo GLSA-200812-12 Normal: Honeyd Symlink Attack Risk

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200812-12 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Honeyd: Insecure temporary file creation Date: December 12, 2008 Bugs: #237481 ID: 200812-12

Synopsis ======= An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in Honeyd, possibly leading to symlink attacks.
Background ========= Honeyd is a small daemon that creates virtual hosts on a network.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-analyzer/honeyd < 1.5c-r1 >= 1.5c-r1
========== Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported an insecure temporary file usage within the "test.sh" script.
Impact ===== A local attacker could perform symlink attacks and overwrite arbitrary...