OpenPKG Security Advisory

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

Advisory Id (public):    OpenPKG-SA-2004.055
Advisory Type:           OpenPKG Security Advisory (SA)
Advisory Directory:      http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA
Advisory Document:       http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA-2004.055
Advisory Published:      2010-02-09 16:48 UTC

Issue Id (internal):     OpenPKG-SI-20041223.01
Issue First Created:     2004-12-23
Issue Last Modified:     2006-11-28
Issue Revision:          05


Subject Name:            gettext
Subject Summary:         GNU National Language Support (NLS) Toolkit
Subject Home:            http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/
Subject Versions:        * <= 0.14.1

Vulnerability Id:        CVE-2004-0966
Vulnerability Scope:     global (not OpenPKG specific)

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

Description:
    Trustix security engineers discovered vulnerabilities [0] in the
    "autopoint" and "gettextize" scripts of GNU gettext [1]. The scripts
    in question insecurely generate temporary files which could allow
    a malicious user to overwrite another user's files via a "symlink
    attack". Software only using GNU gettext's headers and libraries is
    not affected by this problem, however.

References:
    [0] http://www.trustix.org/errata/2004/0050
    [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/
    [2] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0966
    [3] http://www.openpkg.org/tutorial.html#regular-source
    [4] http://www.openpkg.org/tutorial.html#regular-binary
    [5] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/2.2/UPD/gettext-0.14.1-2.2.1.src.rpm
    [6] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/2.1/UPD/gettext-0.14.1-2.1.1.src.rpm
    [7] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/2.2/UPD/
    [8] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/2.1/UPD/
    [9] http://www.openpkg.org/security.html#signature


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

Affected Distribution:   Affected Branch:  Affected Package:
OpenPKG Community        2.1-SOLID         gettext-0.14.1-2.1.0
OpenPKG Community        2.2-SOLID         gettext-0.14.1-2.2.0
OpenPKG Community        CURRENT           gettext-0.14.1-20041006

Corrected Distribution:  Corrected Branch: Corrected Package:
OpenPKG Community        2.1-SOLID         gettext-0.14.1-2.1.1
OpenPKG Community        2.2-SOLID         gettext-0.14.1-2.2.1
OpenPKG Community        CURRENT           gettext-0.14.1-20041217