TITLE:
Gentoo eix Insecure Temporary File Creation

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17699

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CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/339/

DESCRIPTION:
Eric Romang has reported a vulnerability in eix, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a
vulnerable system with escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to temporary files being created
insecurely. This can be exploited via symlink attacks to overwrite
arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running eix.

SOLUTION:
Update "app-portage/eix" to 0.5.0_pre2 or 0.3.0-r2 or later.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Eric Romang

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-19.xml

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