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Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 17:16:41 +0200
From: Nico Golde <oss-security+ml@...lde.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request (gpicview)

Hi Jan,
* Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com> [2008-09-01 11:25]:
> On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 01:46 +0200, Nico Golde wrote:
> > Same piece of code main-win.c doesn't look too trustworthy 
> > to me either:
> > 
> >     690     int error = jpegtran (filename, "/tmp/rot.jpg" , code);
> >     691     if(error)
> >     692         return error;
> >     693 
> >     694     //now copy /tmp/rot.jpg back to the original file
> >     695     char command[strlen(filename)+50]; //this should not generate buffer owerflow
> >     696     // MS: didn't know, how to make it better, maybe an own copy routine
> >     697     sprintf(command,"cp /tmp/rot.jpg \"%s\"",filename);
> >     698     system(command);
> 
> CVE-2008-3791 was allocated to handle the security issue related
[...] 
This only covers the insecure temporary file name creation.

Cheers
Nico
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