1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory
| Advisory Reference | GLSA 200808-11 / nzbget uudeview |
| Release Date | August 11, 2008 |
| Latest Revision | August 11, 2008: 01 |
| Impact | normal |
| Exploitable | local |
| Package | Vulnerable versions | Unaffected versions | Architecture(s) |
| app-text/uudeview | < 0.5.20-r1 | >= 0.5.20-r1 | All supported architectures |
| news-nntp/nzbget | < 0.4.0 | >= 0.4.0 | All supported architectures |
Related bugreports: #222275, #224193
A vulnerability in UUDeview may allow local attackers to conduct symlink attacks.
UUdeview is encoder and decoder supporting various binary formats. NZBGet is a command-line based binary newsgrabber supporting .nzb files.
UUdeview makes insecure usage of the tempnam() function when creating temporary files. NZBGet includes a copy of the vulnerable code.
A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to overwrite arbitrary files on the system.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All UUDview users should upgrade to the latest version:
Code Listing 3.1: Resolution |
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/uudeview-0.5.20-r1" |
All NZBget users should upgrade to the latest version:
Code Listing 3.2: Resolution |
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=news-nntp/nzbget-0.4.0" |