oss-security - Re: amarok temp file vuln

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Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 18:43:06 +0200
From: Robert Buchholz <rbu@...too.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: amarok temp file vuln

On Friday 15 August 2008, Steven M. Christey wrote:
> ======================================================
> Name: CVE-2008-3699
> Status: Candidate
> URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3699
> Reference:
> MISC:http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494765
> Reference: CONFIRM:http://amarok.kde.org/en/releases/1/4/10
> Reference: CONFIRM:http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=846626
> Reference: SECUNIA:31418
> Reference: URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/31418
>
> The MagnatuneBrowser::listDownloadComplete function in
> magnatunebrowser/magnatunebrowser.cpp in Amarok before 1.4.10 allows
> local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the
> album_info.xml temporary file.

It seems CVE-2008-4430 is a duplicate for this?


Robert

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