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Bug 247985 (CVE-2008-5136) - net-misc/tkusr pgm insecure temporary file creation (CVE-2008-5136)
Summary: net-misc/tkusr pgm insecure temporary file creation (CVE-2008-5136)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2008-5136
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High minor (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=C...
Whiteboard: B3 [noglsa]
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks: debian-tempfile
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Reported: 2008-11-21 16:47 UTC by Robert Buchholz (RETIRED)
Modified: 2009-12-23 17:36 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-11-21 16:47:25 UTC 
CVE-2008-5136 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-5136):
  tkusr in tkusr 0.82 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files
  via a symlink attack on the /tmp/tkusr.pgm temporary file.
Comment 1 Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev Security 2008-11-30 17:57:44 UTC 
It's using "#!/usr/bin/wish"
I guess this is the line:
       file delete /tmp/tkusr.pgm
Comment 2 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-07-12 23:34:55 UTC 
tk, does anyone in your camp have the tk programming power to contribute a patch?
Comment 3 Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev Security 2009-11-07 06:27:20 UTC 
Upstream seems dead, URL in package description is offline, package is maintainer-needed...this seems to be a canidate for removal.
tcltk: could you advice?
Comment 4 Víctor Ostorga (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-11-07 19:11:06 UTC 
# Víctor Ostorga <vostorga@gentoo.org> (07 Nov 2009) 
Upstream dead, URL in package description is offline, security vulerability CVE-2008-5136
net-misc/tkusr
Comment 5 Alex Legler (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2009-11-07 20:29:34 UTC 
GLSA vote: NO.
Comment 6 Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev Security 2009-11-08 16:11:13 UTC 
NO, too.
Comment 7 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-12-23 17:29:25 UTC 
Treecleaned.
Security: your turn  now :]
Comment 8 Alex Legler (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2009-12-23 17:36:00 UTC 
Closing noglsa.