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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200903-24">
+  <title>Shadow: Privilege escalation</title>
+  <synopsis>
+    An insecure temporary file usage in Shadow may allow local users to gain
+    root privileges.
+  </synopsis>
+  <product type="ebuild">shadow</product>
+  <announced>2009-03-10</announced>
+  <revised>2009-03-10: 01</revised>
+  <bug>251320</bug>
+  <access>local</access>
+  <affected>
+    <package name="sys-apps/shadow" auto="yes" arch="*">
+      <unaffected range="ge">4.1.2.2</unaffected>
+      <vulnerable range="lt">4.1.2.2</vulnerable>
+    </package>
+  </affected>
+  <background>
+    <p>
+    Shadow is a set of tools to deal with user accounts.
+    </p>
+  </background>
+  <description>
+    <p>
+    Paul Szabo reported a race condition in the "login" executable when
+    setting up tty permissions.
+    </p>
+  </description>
+  <impact type="high">
+    <p>
+    A local attacker belonging to the "utmp" group could use symlink
+    attacks to overwrite arbitrary files and possibly gain root privileges.
+    </p>
+  </impact>
+  <workaround>
+    <p>
+    There is no known workaround at this time.
+    </p>
+  </workaround>
+  <resolution>
+    <p>
+    All Shadow users should upgrade to the latest version:
+    </p>
+    <code>
+    # emerge --sync
+    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-apps/shadow-4.1.2.2"</code>
+  </resolution>
+  <references>
+    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5394">CVE-2008-5394</uri>
+  </references>
+  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2009-02-12T19:41:17Z">
+    craig
+  </metadata>
+  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2009-03-08T19:05:06Z">
+    p-y
+  </metadata>
+  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2009-03-08T19:05:15Z">
+    p-y
+  </metadata>
+</glsa>