C* music player: Insecure temporary file usage

C* music player: Insecure temporary file usage An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in the C* music player, allowing for symlink attacks. cmus September 09, 2009 September 09, 2009: 01 250474 local 2.2.0-r1 2.2.0-r1

The C* Music Player (cmus) is a modular and very configurable ncurses-based audio player.

Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that cmus-status-display does not handle the "/tmp/cmus-status" temporary file securely.

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

There is no known workaround at this time.

All C* music player users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-sound/cmus-2.2.0-r1"

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