The sandbox utility may create temporary files in an insecure manner.

Announced

2005-07-25

Revised

2005-08-11 (revision 2)

Access

local

Bugs

#96782

Advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200507-22

Affected packages

Package	Arch	Vulnerable	Unaffected
sys-apps/sandbox	*	< 1.2.11	>= 1.2.11

Background

sandbox is a Gentoo Linux utility used by the Portage package management system.

Description

The Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered that the sandbox utility was vulnerable to multiple TOCTOU (Time of Check, Time of Use) file creation race conditions.

Impact

Local users may be able to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the permissions of the root user.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All sandbox users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.11"

References

• CAN-2005-2449