Package name gnucash
Date February 21st, 2007
Advisory ID MDKSA-2007:046
Affected versions 2007.0

Problem Description

Gnucash 2.0.4 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary
files via a symlink attack on the (1) gnucash.trace, (2) qof.trace,
and (3) qof.trace.[PID] temporary files.

Updated package have been patched to correct this issue.

Updated Packages

Mandriva Linux 2007

 a8b619c62b08ffe1a0a94123450c9182  2007.0/i586/gnucash-2.0.1-1.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
 4670eabd1f6b6ac60d6c0fa6bbf86fae  2007.0/i586/gnucash-hbci-2.0.1-1.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
 071c5a28526cc29b99d47485d95b5115  2007.0/i586/gnucash-ofx-2.0.1-1.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
 fa58ac7785e11552ad48bc35427ee689  2007.0/i586/gnucash-sql-2.0.1-1.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
 3f8f689dd645e73822bd5baa6ba4db1f  2007.0/i586/libgnucash0-2.0.1-1.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
 336f63153412b508077cc655d6ce9e76  2007.0/i586/libgnucash0-devel-2.0.1-1.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm 
 ae715153145554dab009d40e68148ce7  2007.0/SRPMS/gnucash-2.0.1-1.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007/X86_64

 5e30146412acbec8657a8f4590146279  2007.0/x86_64/gnucash-2.0.1-1.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
 725b0c74c9335e4698e634ebc34788da  2007.0/x86_64/gnucash-hbci-2.0.1-1.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
 15c729b3a02cef72a3b1e019a2a17415  2007.0/x86_64/gnucash-ofx-2.0.1-1.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
 00724c0891a6e67973c6c9bce8dc25a3  2007.0/x86_64/gnucash-sql-2.0.1-1.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
 db2b23ba27b6651b0452cfa7463b8e4e  2007.0/x86_64/lib64gnucash0-2.0.1-1.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
 c97bf9c1d352b89f59572c1762fd5930  2007.0/x86_64/lib64gnucash0-devel-2.0.1-1.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm 
 ae715153145554dab009d40e68148ce7  2007.0/SRPMS/gnucash-2.0.1-1.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm

References

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0007

Upgrade

To upgrade automatically, use MandrivaUpdate.


Verification

Please verify the update prior to upgrading to ensure the integrity of the downloaded package. You can do this with the command :

		rpm --checksig package.rpm
		

You can get the GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team to verify the GPG signature of each RPM.

If you use MandrivaUpdate, the verification of md5 checksum and GPG signature is performed automatically for you.