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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+
+<glsa id="200712-07">
+ <title>Lookup: Insecure temporary file creation</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ Lookup uses temporary files in an insecure manner, allowing for a symlink
+ attack.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">lookup</product>
+ <announced>December 09, 2007</announced>
+ <revised>December 09, 2007: 01</revised>
+ <bug>197306</bug>
+ <access>local</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="app-emacs/lookup" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">1.4.1</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">1.4.1</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ Lookup is a search interface to books and dictionnaries for Emacs.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Tatsuya Kinoshita reported that the ndeb-binary function does not
+ handle temporay files correctly.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ A local attacker could use a symlink attack to overwrite files with the
+ privileges of the user running Lookup.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All Lookup users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=app-emacs/lookup-1.4.1&quot;</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0237">CVE-2007-0237</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:00:43 +0000">
+ p-y
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:09:14 +0000">
+ rbu
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sat, 08 Dec 2007 23:10:28 +0000">
+ p-y
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>