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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200901-14">
+  <title>Scilab: Insecure temporary file usage</title>
+  <synopsis>
+    An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in Scilab, allowing for
+    symlink attacks.
+  </synopsis>
+  <product type="ebuild">scilab</product>
+  <announced>2009-01-21</announced>
+  <revised count="01">2009-01-21</revised>
+  <bug>245922</bug>
+  <access>local</access>
+  <affected>
+    <package name="sci-mathematics/scilab" auto="yes" arch="*">
+      <unaffected range="ge">4.1.2-r1</unaffected>
+      <vulnerable range="lt">4.1.2-r1</vulnerable>
+    </package>
+  </affected>
+  <background>
+    <p>
+    Scilab is a scientific software package for numerical computations.
+    </p>
+  </background>
+  <description>
+    <p>
+    Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported an insecure temporary file usage within the
+    scilink, scidoc and scidem scripts.
+    </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 Scilab users should upgrade to the latest version:
+    </p>
+    <code>
+    # emerge --sync
+    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sci-mathematics/scilab-4.1.2-r1"</code>
+  </resolution>
+  <references>
+    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4983">CVE-2008-4983</uri>
+  </references>
+  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2009-01-13T17:29:36Z">
+    rbu
+  </metadata>
+  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2009-01-13T18:21:32Z">
+    p-y
+  </metadata>
+  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2009-01-13T18:21:45Z">
+    p-y
+  </metadata>
+</glsa>