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<glsa id="201310-11">
  <title>Perl Parallel-ForkManager Module: Insecure temporary file usage</title>
  <synopsis>An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in the Perl
    Parallel-ForkManager module, possibly allowing symlink attacks.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">Parallel-ForkManager</product>
  <announced>2013-10-17</announced>
  <revised count="1">2013-10-17</revised>
  <bug>389839</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-perl/Parallel-ForkManager" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.20.0</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.20.0</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Parallel-ForkManager is a simple parallel processing fork manager for
      Perl.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>The Perl Parallel-ForkManager module does not handle temporary files
      securely.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary
      files with the privileges of the user running the application.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Parallel-ForkManager users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
      "&gt;=dev-perl/Parallel-ForkManager-1.20.0"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-4115">CVE-2011-4115</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2013-01-02T18:47:58Z">
    underling
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2013-10-17T08:42:08Z">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>
