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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200407-01">
+  <title>Esearch: Insecure temp file handling</title>
+  <synopsis>
+    The eupdatedb utility in esearch creates a file in /tmp without first
+    checking for symlinks. This makes it possible for any user to create
+    arbitrary files.
+  </synopsis>
+  <product type="ebuild">esearch</product>
+  <announced>2004-07-01</announced>
+  <revised count="02">2006-05-22</revised>
+  <bug>55424</bug>
+  <access>local</access>
+  <affected>
+    <package name="app-portage/esearch" auto="yes" arch="*">
+      <unaffected range="ge">0.6.2</unaffected>
+      <vulnerable range="le">0.6.1</vulnerable>
+    </package>
+  </affected>
+  <background>
+    <p>
+    Esearch is a replacement for the Portage command "emerge search". It
+    uses an index to speed up searching of the Portage tree.
+    </p>
+  </background>
+  <description>
+    <p>
+    The eupdatedb utility uses a temporary file (/tmp/esearchdb.py.tmp) to
+    indicate that the eupdatedb process is running. When run, eupdatedb
+    checks to see if this file exists, but it does not check to see if it
+    is a broken symlink. In the event that the file is a broken symlink,
+    the script will create the file pointed to by the symlink, instead of
+    printing an error and exiting.
+    </p>
+  </description>
+  <impact type="normal">
+    <p>
+    An attacker could create a symlink from /tmp/esearchdb.py.tmp to a
+    nonexistent file (such as /etc/nologin), and the file will be created
+    the next time esearchdb is run.
+    </p>
+  </impact>
+  <workaround>
+    <p>
+    There is no known workaround at this time. All users should upgrade to
+    the latest available version of esearch.
+    </p>
+  </workaround>
+  <resolution>
+    <p>
+    All users should upgrade to the latest available version of esearch, as
+    follows:
+    </p>
+    <code>
+    # emerge sync
+    
+    # emerge -pv "&gt;=app-portage/esearch-0.6.2"
+    # emerge "&gt;=app-portage/esearch-0.6.2"</code>
+  </resolution>
+  <references>
+    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0655">CVE-2004-0655</uri>
+  </references>
+  <metadata tag="submitter">
+    condordes
+  </metadata>
+</glsa>