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HistorySep 03, 2002 - 12:00 a.m.

scrollkeeper - insecure temporary file creation

2002-09-0300:00:00
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0.0004 Low

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5.1%

Spybreak discovered a problem in scrollkeeper, a free electronic
cataloging system for documentation. The scrollkeeper-get-cl program
creates temporary files in an insecure manner in /tmp using guessable
filenames. Since scrollkeeper is called automatically when a user
logs into a Gnome session, an attacker with local access can easily
create and overwrite files as another user.

This problem has been fixed in version 0.3.6-3.1 for the current
stable distribution (woody) and in version 0.3.11-2 for the unstable
distribution (sid). The old stable distribution (potato) is not
affected, since it doesn’t contain the scrollkeeper package.

We recommend that you upgrade your scrollkeeper packages immediately.