GLSA 201203-18: Minitube: Insecure temporary file usage

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Minitube: Insecure temporary file usage
Date:	03/16/2012
Bugs:	#388867
ID:	201203-18

Synopsis

An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in Minitube, possibly allowing symlink attacks.

Background

Minitube is a Qt4 YouTube desktop client.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
media-video/minitube	< 1.6	>= 1.6	All supported architectures

Description

Tomáš Pružina reported that Minitube does not handle temporary files 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 Minitube users should upgrade to the latest version:

      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-video/minitube-1.6"

NOTE: This is a legacy GLSA. Updates for all affected architectures are available since November 11, 2011. It is likely that your system is already no longer affected by this issue.

References

Minitube 1.6 Release

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201203-18.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.