from MDKSA-2006:038: The Trustix Secure Linux team discovered a vulnerability in the groffer utility, part of the groff package. It created a temporary directory in an insecure way which allowed for the exploitation of a race condition to create or overwrite files the privileges of the user invoking groffer. Likewise, similar temporary file issues were fixed in the pic2graph and eqn2graph programs which now use mktemp to create temporary files, as discovered by Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena. The issue mentioned in the first paragraph is bug 68404, the other ones are new.
base-system please check and provide fixed ebuilds, thanks
pic2graph and eqn2graph current tmp handling looks pretty good to me : tmp=`(umask 077 && mktemp -d -q "$d/eqn2graph-XXXXXX") 2> /dev/null` \ && test -n "$tmp" && test -d "$tmp" \ && break This was CVE-2004-1296 and has probably been fixed upstream since then Closing, feel free to reopen if you disagree.
