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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200712-11">
  <title>Portage: Information disclosure</title>
  <synopsis>
    Portage may disclose sensitive information when updating configuration
    files.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">portage</product>
  <announced>2007-12-13</announced>
  <revised count="01">2007-12-13</revised>
  <bug>193589</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="sys-apps/portage" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.1.3.11</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.1.3.11</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Portage is the default Gentoo package management system.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Mike Frysinger reported that the "etc-update" utility uses temporary
    files with the standard umask, which results in the files being
    world-readable when merging configuration files in a default setup.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A local attacker could access sensitive information when configuration
    files are being merged.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Portage users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-apps/portage-2.1.3.11"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6249">CVE-2007-6249</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-12-10T21:27:57Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-12-10T21:28:40Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-12-11T22:39:19Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>
