Bug 907935 (CVE-2023-34204)

Summary:	net-mail/imapsync: insecure tmp directory usage
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	John Helmert III <ajak>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	maintainer-needed
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync/issues/399
Whiteboard:	A3 [upstream]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description John Helmert III archtester

2023-06-06 04:32:39 UTC

CVE-2023-34204:

imapsync through 2.229 uses predictable paths under /tmp and /var/tmp in its default mode of operation. Both of these are typically world-writable, and thus (for example) an attacker can modify imapsync's cache and overwrite files belonging to the user who runs it.