Bug 1035244

Summary:	hplip: insecure temporary file handling in pkit.py [fedora-all]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ratul Gupta <ratulg>
Component:	hplip	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	19	CC:	jpopelka, twaugh
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2013-11-28 05:35:32 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	1035243

Description Ratul Gupta 2013-11-27 11:14:40 UTC

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Comment 1 Ratul Gupta 2013-11-27 11:14:54 UTC

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Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2013-11-27 13:02:16 UTC

In practice I don't think this is exploitable in Fedora.

The affected code, which implements the BackendServer class, is shipped (base/pkit.py). However, it only does so if the "policy-kit" configuration variable is set to yes -- and that is not the default for Fedora.

Additionally, even if the configuration is changed, the BackendServer class is only instantiated in the pkservice.py module -- and this is explicitly *not* shipped in Fedora.