aview: Insecure temporary file usage — GLSA 200812-14

An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in aview, leading to symlink attacks.

Package	media-gfx/aview on all architectures
Affected versions	< 1.3.0_rc1-r1
Unaffected versions	>= 1.3.0_rc1-r1

aview is an ASCII image viewer and animation player.

Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that aview uses the "/tmp/aview$$.pgm" file in an insecure manner when processing files.

A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files on the system with the privileges of the user running the application.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All aview users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-gfx/aview-1.3.0_rc1-r1"

Release date
December 14, 2008

Latest revision
December 14, 2008: 01

Severity
normal

Exploitable
local

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