glsa-200812-12.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200812-12">
  <title>Honeyd: Insecure temporary file creation</title>
  <synopsis>
    An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in Honeyd, possibly
    leading to symlink attacks.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">honeyd</product>
  <announced>December 12, 2008</announced>
  <revised>December 12, 2008: 01</revised>
  <bug>237481</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-analyzer/honeyd" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.5c-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.5c-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Honeyd is a small daemon that creates virtual hosts on a network.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported an insecure temporary file usage within the
    "test.sh" script.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A local attacker could perform symlink attacks and overwrite arbitrary
    files with the privileges of the user running the application.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Honeyd users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-analyzer/honeyd-1.5c-r1&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3928">CVE-2008-3928</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:32:05 +0000">
    keytoaster
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:17:52 +0000">
    keytoaster
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:14:32 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>