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

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Honeyd running on Gentoo is vulnerable to insecure temporary file generation, which may expose it to symlink hijacking. It is advisable to perform an upgrade.
An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in Honeyd, possibly leading to symlink attacks.

Summary

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...

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