Package: babiloo
Version: 2.0.9-1
Severity: grave
Tags: security
Justification: user security hole

babiloo creates temporary files with predictable names, allowing a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files.

An example scenario:

1. Attacker does `ln -sf /file/to/overwrite /tmp/fra_vie.dct.zip`.
2. Victim runs babiloo, selects Dictionaries > Download
Dictionaries, selects the "French-Vietnamese" dictionary, and clicks
the icon to download it.

In addition to that, babiloo appears to be affected by CVE-2007-4559.

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Jakub Wilk

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