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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+
+<glsa id="200909-10">
+ <title>LMBench: Insecure temporary file usage</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ Multiple insecure temporary file usage issues have been reported in
+ LMBench, allowing for symlink attacks.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">lmbench</product>
+ <announced>September 09, 2009</announced>
+ <revised>September 09, 2009: 01</revised>
+ <bug>246015</bug>
+ <access>local</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="app-benchmarks/lmbench" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <vulnerable range="le">3</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ LMBench is a suite of simple, portable benchmarks for UNIX platforms.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that the rccs and STUFF scripts do not
+ handle "/tmp/sdiff.#####" temporary files securely. NOTE: There might
+ be further occurances of insecure temporary file usage.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary
+ files with the privileges of the user running the application.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ LMBench has been removed from Portage. We recommend that users unmerge
+ LMBench:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --unmerge app-benchmarks/lmbench</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4968">CVE-2008-4968</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:54:15 +0000">
+ rbu
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:58:27 +0000">
+ a3li
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:38:05 +0000">
+ a3li
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>