SPE: Insecure file permissions

1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Package	Vulnerable versions	Unaffected versions	Architecture(s)
dev-util/spe	< 0.7.5c-r1	>= 0.7.5c-r1, revision >= 0.5.1f-r1	All supported architectures

Related bugreports: #108538

SPE files are installed with world-writeable permissions, potentially leading to privilege escalation.

2. Impact Information

SPE is a cross-platform Python Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

It was reported that due to an oversight all SPE's files are set as world-writeable.

A local attacker could modify the executable files, causing arbitrary code to be executed with the permissions of the user running SPE.

3. Resolution Information

There is no known workaround at this time.

All SPE users should upgrade to the latest version:

Code Listing 3.1: Resolution

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose dev-util/spe

4. References

Page updated October 15, 2005

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