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Message-ID: <52EFBAA8.4070509@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 02:50:00 +1100
From: Murray McAllister <mmcallis@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: 737385@...s.debian.org
Subject: Re: CVE request: a2ps insecure temporary file use
On 02/03/2014 05:12 PM, Murray McAllister wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Jakub Wilk found that a2ps, a tool to convert text and other types of
> files to PostScript, insecurely used a temporary file in spy_user(). A
> local attacker could use this flaw to perform a symbolic link attack to
> modify an arbitrary file accessible to the user running a2ps:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737385
>
> The original report notes there are calls to tempname_ensure(). If any
> of those are found to be vulnerable, would they use the same CVE number,
> or require a different one?
>
> References:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737385
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1060630
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Murray McAllister / Red Hat Security Response Team
>
Tim Waugh pointed out this was fixed in 2001:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1060630#c5
And notes
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/a2ps.git/plain/a2ps-4.13-security.patch
is the patch.
Cheers,
--
Murray McAllister / Red Hat Security Response Team
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