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Gentoo: GLSA-202303-15 Moderate: NetworkManager Security Flaw

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Calendar Grey February 8, 2014
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Gentoo PulseAudio users are advised to update their systems to address vulnerabilities involving insecure temp file handling, which may expose them to symlink exploitation risks.
An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in PulseAudio, possibly allowing symlink attacks.

Summary

The pa_make_secure_dir function in core-util.c does not handle temporary files securely.

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Topics Covered

security advisory gentoo temporary file symlink attack package upgrade

Resolution

All PulseAudio users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-sound/pulseaudio-0.9.22"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2009-1299 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-1299

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201402-10
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: PulseAudio: Insecure temporary file usage
Date: February 07, 2014
Bugs: #313329
ID: 201402-10

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Topics Covered

security advisory gentoo temporary file symlink attack package upgrade

Synopsis

An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in PulseAudio, possibly allowing symlink attacks.

Background

PulseAudio is a sound system for POSIX OSes.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-sound/pulseaudio < 0.9.22 >= 0.9.22

Impact

===== A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running the application.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.