oss-security - Re: CVE request - pyftpd insecure usage of temporary directory

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Message-ID: <1243000043.142171276544097414.JavaMail.root@zmail01.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:34:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request - pyftpd insecure usage of temporary
 directory

Please use CVE-2010-2072 for this.

Thanks.

-- 
    JB

----- "Henri Salo" <henri@...v.fi> wrote:

> Pyftpd creates log-file to a temporary directory using predictable
> name. This allows a local attacker to create a denial of service
> condition and discloses sensitive information to unprivileged users.
> For example accounts of other users connecting to server and paths
> they
> visit.
> 
> One should use tempfile.mkstemp
> <http://docs.python.org/library/tempfile.html#tempfile.mkstemp> or
> use /var/log/ -directory instead of /tmp/ and use proper file system
> modes for the log-file.
> 
> This affects version: 0.8.4
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=585773
> 
> Can I have CVE-identifier for this issue?
> 
> ---
> Henri Salo

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