Amarok: Insecure temporary file creation

Amarok: Insecure temporary file creation Amarok uses temporary files in an insecure manner, allowing for a symlink attack. amarok September 08, 2008 September 08, 2008: 01 234689 local 1.4.10 1.4.10

Amarok is an advanced music player.

Dwayne Litzenberger reported that the MagnatuneBrowser::listDownloadComplete() function in magnatunebrowser/magnatunebrowser.cpp uses the album_info.xml temporary file in an insecure manner.

A local attacker could perform a symlink attack 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 Amarok users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-sound/amarok-1.4.10"

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