GLSA 200510-13: SPE: Insecure file permissions

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Severity:	normal
Title:	SPE: Insecure file permissions
Date:	10/15/2005
Bugs:	#108538
ID:	200510-13

Synopsis

SPE files are installed with world-writeable permissions, potentially leading to privilege escalation.

Background

SPE is a cross-platform Python Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
dev-util/spe	< 0.7.5c-r1	>= 0.7.5c-r1	All supported architectures

Description

It was reported that due to an oversight all SPE's files are set as world-writeable.

Impact

A local attacker could modify the executable files, causing arbitrary code to be executed with the permissions of the user running SPE.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All SPE users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose dev-util/spe

References

CVE-2005-3291

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200510-13.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 https://bugs.gentoo.org.