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PostPosted: Sat Aug 16, 2003 11:07 am    Post subject: [gentoo-announce] GLSA: semi (200308-02) Reply with quote

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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200308-02
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PACKAGE : semi
SUMMARY : insecure temporary files creation
DATE : 2003-08-14 19:30 UTC
EXPLOIT : local
VERSIONS AFFECTED : <semi-1.14.5-r1
FIXED VERSION : >=semi-1.14.5-r1
CVE : CAN-2003-0440

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quote from CVE:

"The (1) semi MIME library 1.14.5 and earlier, and (2) wemi 1.14.0 and
possibly other versions, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files
via a symlink attack on temporary files."

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
app-emacs/semi upgrade to semi-1.14.5-r1 as follows

emerge sync
emerge semi
emerge clean

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aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at http://dev.gentoo.org/~aliz
usata@gentoo.org
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