<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200803-11"> <title>Vobcopy: Insecure temporary file creation</title> <synopsis> Vobcopy uses temporary files in an insecure manner, allowing for a symlink attack. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">vobcopy</product> <announced>2008-03-05</announced> <revised count="01">2008-03-05</revised> <bug>197578</bug> <access>local</access> <affected> <package name="media-video/vobcopy" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">1.1.0</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">1.1.0</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> Vobcopy is a tool for decrypting and copying DVD .vob files to a hard disk. </p> </background> <description> <p> Joey Hess reported that vobcopy appends data to the file "/tmp/vobcopy.bla" in an insecure manner. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct symlink attacks and append data to arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running Vobcopy. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All Vobcopy users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-video/vobcopy-1.1.0"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5718">CVE-2007-5718</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-03-04T14:25:49Z"> rbu </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-03-04T22:37:51Z"> p-y </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-03-04T22:38:00Z"> p-y </metadata> </glsa>