Lookup: Insecure temporary file creation

Lookup: Insecure temporary file creation Lookup uses temporary files in an insecure manner, allowing for a symlink attack. lookup 2007-12-09 2007-12-09 197306 local 1.4.1 1.4.1

Lookup is a search interface to books and dictionnaries for Emacs.

Tatsuya Kinoshita reported that the ndeb-binary function does not handle temporay files correctly.

A local attacker could use a symlink attack to overwrite files with the privileges of the user running Lookup.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Lookup users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emacs/lookup-1.4.1"

CVE-2007-0237 p-y rbu p-y