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Gentoo: GLSA-200812-14 Normal: aview Insecure Temporary File Exploit

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Calendar Grey December 14, 2008
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Uncover the recent security notice regarding Gentoo's aview application, which highlights concerns related to the inappropriate handling of temporary files and the potential risks this poses.
An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in aview, leading to symlink attacks.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200812-14 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: aview: Insecure temporary file usage Date: December 14, 2008 Bugs: #235808 ID: 200812-14

Synopsis ======= An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in aview, leading to symlink attacks.
Background ========= aview is an ASCII image viewer and animation player.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-gfx/aview < 1.3.0_rc1-r1 >= 1.3.0_rc1-r1
========== Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that aview uses the "/tmp/aview$$.pgm" file in an insecure manner when processing files.
Impact ===== A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary ...

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