GLSA 200812-12: Honeyd: Insecure temporary file creation

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Honeyd: Insecure temporary file creation
Date:	12/12/2008
Bugs:	#237481
ID:	200812-12

Synopsis

An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in Honeyd, possibly leading to symlink attacks.

Background

Honeyd is a small daemon that creates virtual hosts on a network.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
net-analyzer/honeyd	< 1.5c-r1	>= 1.5c-r1	All supported architectures

Description

Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported an insecure temporary file usage within the "test.sh" script.

Impact

A local attacker could perform symlink attacks and overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running the application.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Honeyd users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/honeyd-1.5c-r1"

References

CVE-2008-3928

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-12.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.