TkMan: Insecure temporary file usage

1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Package	Vulnerable versions	Unaffected versions	Architecture(s)
app-text/tkman	< 2.2-r1	>= 2.2-r1	All supported architectures

Related bugreports: #247540

An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in TkMan, allowing for symlink attacks.

2. Impact Information

TkMan is a graphical, hypertext manual page and Texinfo browser for UNIX.

Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that TkMan does not handle the "/tmp/tkman#####" and "/tmp/ll" temporary files securely.

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

3. Resolution Information

There is no known workaround at this time.

All TkMan users should upgrade to the latest version:

Code Listing 3.1: Resolution

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/tkman-2.2-r1"

4. References

Page updated September 09, 2009

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