OpenPKG Security Advisory

Publisher Name:          OpenPKG GmbH
Publisher Home:          http://openpkg.com/

Advisory Id (public):    OpenPKG-SA-2004.004
Advisory Type:           OpenPKG Security Advisory (SA)
Advisory Directory:      http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA
Advisory Document:       http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA-2004.004
Advisory Published:      2010-09-03 22:31 UTC

Issue Id (internal):     OpenPKG-SI-20040308.01
Issue First Created:     2004-03-08
Issue Last Modified:     2006-11-28
Issue Revision:          05


Subject Name:            Libtool
Subject Summary:         Library Building Tool
Subject Home:            http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/
Subject Versions:        * <= 1.5.2

Vulnerability Id:        none
Vulnerability Scope:     global (not OpenPKG specific)

Attack Feasibility:      run-time
Attack Vector:           local system
Attack Impact:           privilege escalation

Description:
    According to a posting on Bugtraq [0], an issue regarding the insecure
    creation of a temporary directory exists in GNU libtool [1] versions
    before 1.5.2. Use of mkdir(1) along with option "-p" makes libtool
    vulnerable to symlink attacks. Stefan Nordhausen commited a fix that
    removes the use of option "-p" in version 1.5.2. Discussion on Bugtraq
    further indicates that an additional race condition issue exists in
    the same context using chmod(1), reported by Joseph S. Myers back in
    March 2000 [2]. The updated OpenPKG versions of libtool contain fixes
    for both issues.

References:
    [0] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=107577516526919&w=4
    [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/
    [2] http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=3438808&list=405
    [3] http://www.openpkg.org/tutorial.html#regular-source
    [4] http://www.openpkg.org/tutorial.html#regular-binary
    [5] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/1.3/UPD/libtool-1.5-1.3.1.src.rpm
    [6] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/2.0/UPD/libtool-1.5.2-2.0.1.src.rpm
    [7] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/1.3/UPD/
    [8] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/2.0/UPD/
    [9] http://www.openpkg.org/security.html#signature


Primary Package Name:    libtool
Primary Package Home:    http://openpkg.org/go/package/libtool

Affected Distribution:   Affected Branch:  Affected Package:
OpenPKG Community        1.3-SOLID         libtool-1.5-1.3.0
OpenPKG Community        2.0-SOLID         libtool-1.5.2-2.0.0
OpenPKG Community        CURRENT           libtool-1.5.2-20040207

Corrected Distribution:  Corrected Branch: Corrected Package:
OpenPKG Community        1.3-SOLID         libtool-1.5-1.3.1
OpenPKG Community        2.0-SOLID         libtool-1.5.2-2.0.1
OpenPKG Community        CURRENT           libtool-1.5.2-20040308