1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory
| Advisory Reference | GLSA 200709-04 / po4a |
| Release Date | September 13, 2007 |
| Latest Revision | September 13, 2007: 01 |
| Impact | normal |
| Exploitable | local |
| Package | Vulnerable versions | Unaffected versions | Architecture(s) |
| app-text/po4a | < 0.32-r1 | >= 0.32-r1 | All supported architectures |
Related bugreports: #189440
A vulnerability has been discovered in po4a, allowing for a symlink attack.
po4a is a set of tools for helping with the translation of documentation.
The po4a development team reported a race condition in the gettextize() function when creating the file "/tmp/gettextization.failed.po".
A local attacker could perform a symlink attack, possibly overwriting files with the permissions of the user running po4a.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All po4a users should upgrade to the latest version:
Code Listing 3.1: Resolution |
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/po4a-0.32-r1" |