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<glsa id="200404-04">
  <title>Multiple vulnerabilities in sysstat</title>
  <synopsis>
    Multiple vulnerabilities in the way sysstat handles symlinks may allow an
    attacker to execute arbitrary code or overwrite arbitrary files
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">sysstat</product>
  <announced>April 06, 2004</announced>
  <revised>April 06, 2004: 01</revised>
  <bug>45159</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-admin/sysstat" auto="yes" arch="x86 ppc sparc amd64">
      <unaffected range="ge">5.0.2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">5.0.2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    sysstat is a package containing a number of performance monitoring
    utilities for Linux, including sar, mpstat, iostat and sa tools
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    There are two vulnerabilities in the way sysstat handles symlinks:
    </p>
	<ol>
    <li>The isag utility, which displays sysstat data in a graphical format,
    creates a temporary file in an insecure manner.</li>
    <li>Two scripts in the sysstat package, post and trigger, create temporary
    files in an insecure manner.</li>
	</ol>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    Both vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files
    under the permissions of the user executing any of the affected 
    utilities.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    A workaround is not currently known for this issue. All users are advised
    to upgrade to the latest version of the affected package.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    Systat users should upgrade to version 4.2 or later:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge sync
    
    # emerge -pv ">=app-admin/sysstat-5.0.2"
    # emerge ">=app-admin/sysstat-5.0.2"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0107">CVE (1)</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0108">CVE (2)</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter">klieber</metadata>
</glsa>