Gentoo: GLSA-202310-34 Moderate: Filezilla RCE Security Flaw Announced
gentoo
September 9, 2009
An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in TkMan, allowing for symlink attacks.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200909-07
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: TkMan: Insecure temporary file usage
Date: September 09, 2009
Bugs: #247540
ID: 200909-07
Synopsis
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An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in TkMan, allowing
for symlink attacks.
Background
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TkMan is a graphical, hypertext manual page and Texinfo browser for
UNIX.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 app-text/tkman < 2.2-r1 >= 2.2-r1
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Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that TkMan does not handle the
"/tmp/tkman#####" and "/tmp/ll" temporary files securely.
Impact
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A local attacker could perform symlink attacks...
Resolution
References
Availability
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