GLSA 200909-08: C* music player: Insecure temporary file usage

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Severity:	normal
Title:	C* music player: Insecure temporary file usage
Date:	09/09/2009
Bugs:	#250474
ID:	200909-08

Synopsis

An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in the C* music player, allowing for symlink attacks.

Background

The C* Music Player (cmus) is a modular and very configurable ncurses-based audio player.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
media-sound/cmus	< 2.2.0-r1	>= 2.2.0-r1	All supported architectures

Description

Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that cmus-status-display does not handle the "/tmp/cmus-status" temporary file securely.

Impact

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

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All C* music player users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-sound/cmus-2.2.0-r1"

References

CVE-2008-5375

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200909-08.xml

Concerns?

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