Bug 247479 (CVE-2008-5151)

Summary:	sci-visualization/mayavi symlink attack (CVE-2008-5151)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Stefan Behte (RETIRED) <craig>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	sci
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-5151
Whiteboard:	~3 [ebuild]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	235770

Description Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-11-18 19:04:16 UTC

CVE-2008-5151 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-5151):
  test_parser.py in mayavi 1.5 allows local users to overwrite
  arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/err.log temporary
  file.

Comment 1 Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-11-30 16:24:32 UTC

*PING*

Comment 2 Sébastien Fabbro (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-12-03 15:17:26 UTC

Hi,

I think this advisory doesn't apply. The /tmp/err.log attack is on a comment in test_parser.py, and looking at the code, the only reference to a possible temp file was commented out (line 161).
So I would close this as invalid but I need security experts to confirm.

Thanks

Comment 3 Sébastien Fabbro (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-01-19 22:53:07 UTC

We should close this one, as it is a non issue.
@security: ok with that?

Comment 4 Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-01-20 00:15:46 UTC

Confirmed, closing.