USN-657-1: Amarok vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 8.04
• Ubuntu 7.10

Packages

• amarok -

Details

Dwayne Litzenberger discovered that Amarok created temporary files in
an insecure way. Local users could exploit a race condition to create
or overwrite files with the privileges of the user invoking the
program. (CVE-2008-3699)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 8.04

• amarok - 2:1.4.9.1-0ubuntu3.1

Ubuntu 7.10

• amarok - 2:1.4.7-0ubuntu3.1

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart Amarok to effect
the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2008-3699