oss-security - Re: CVE Request -- rpcbind -- Insecure (predictable) temporary file use

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Message-ID: <711883486.263581276026189246.JavaMail.root@zmail01.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 15:43:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Guillem Jover <guillem@...ian.org>,
        Aníbal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@...ian.org>,
        "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- rpcbind -- Insecure (predictable)
 temporary file use


----- "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, Josh Bressers wrote:
> 
> > Please use CVE-2010-2061 for this.
> 
> My read of Guillem's report at 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=583435#5 suggests
> that we 
> might have two distinct issues here:
> 
> - "*any* user can craft those two files before the daemon
> has started for the first time, which the daemon will parse."  Nothing
> to do with symlinks.

Let's use CVE-2010-2061 for this one.

> 
> - symlinks are followed on creation of those files

Let's use CVE-2010-2064 for this one.

Thanks.

-- 
    JB

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