Fedora Security Update Fixes id3lib Insecure Temporary Files

by Marianna Schmudlach - 8/27/07 8:49 AM

In Reply to: VULNERABILITIES \ FIXES - August 27, 2007 by Marianna Schmudlach

Fedora Security Update Fixes id3lib Insecure Temporary Files Vulnerability

Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2007-2961
CVE ID : CVE-2007-4460
Rated as : Low Risk
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-08-27
Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Fedora, which could be exploited by malicious users to bypass security restrictions. This issue is caused by an error in the "RenderV2ToFile()" [tag_file.cpp] function within id3lib that handles temporary files in an insecure manner, which could allow malicious users to conduct symlink attacks and create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the vulnerable library.

Affected Products

Fedora 7

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages References

http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/2961
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-August/msg00358.html