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GLSA-200709-04 : po4a: Insecure temporary file creation

low Nessus Plugin ID 26094

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200709-04 (po4a: Insecure temporary file creation)

 The po4a development team reported a race condition in the gettextize() function when creating the file '/tmp/gettextization.failed.po'.
 Impact :

 A local attacker could perform a symlink attack, possibly overwriting files with the permissions of the user running po4a.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All po4a users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=app-text/po4a-0.32-r1'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200709-04

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 26094

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200709-04.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Published: 9/24/2007

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:po4a, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 9/13/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4462

GLSA: 200709-04