A new security update has been released for Gentoo Linux - UUDeview: Insecure temporary file creation. Here the announcement:
"Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200808-11
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Severity: Normal
Title: UUDeview: Insecure temporary file creation
Date: August 11, 2008
Bugs: #222275, #224193
ID: 200808-11
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Synopsis
========
A vulnerability in UUDeview may allow local attackers to conduct
symlink attacks.
Background
==========
UUdeview is encoder and decoder supporting various binary formats.
NZBGet is a command-line based binary newsgrabber supporting .nzb
files.
Affected packages
=================
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 app-text/uudeview < 0.5.20-r1 >= 0.5.20-r=
1
2 news-nntp/nzbget < 0.4.0 >= 0.4.=
0
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2 affected packages on all of their supported architectures.
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Description
===========
UUdeview makes insecure usage of the tempnam() function when creating
temporary files. NZBGet includes a copy of the vulnerable code.
Impact
======
A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to overwrite
arbitrary files on the system.
Workaround
==========
There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
==========
All UUDview users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/uudeview-0.5.20-r1=
"
All NZBget users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=news-nntp/nzbget-0.4.0"
References
==========
[ 1 ] CVE-2008-2266
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2266
Availability
============
This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-11.xml
Concerns?
=========
Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.
License
=======
Copyright 2008 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).
The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5
"
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