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Bug 247986 (CVE-2008-5138) - sys-auth/pam_mount passwdehd insecure temporary file creation (CVE-2008-5138)
Summary: sys-auth/pam_mount passwdehd insecure temporary file creation (CVE-2008-5138)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2008-5138
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
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Whiteboard: B3 [ebuild]
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Blocks: debian-tempfile
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Reported: 2008-11-21 16:51 UTC by Robert Buchholz (RETIRED)
Modified: 2009-01-21 22:13 UTC (History)
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Description Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-11-21 16:51:22 UTC 
CVE-2008-5138 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-5138):
  passwdehd in libpam-mount 0.43 allows local users to overwrite
  arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/passwdehd.#####
  temporary file.
Comment 1 Hanno Böck gentoo-dev 2008-11-21 18:36:35 UTC 
According to the author, this has changed in 0.49. I just removed the old 0.48 ebuild, but else we should be fine.