Bug 1074720 (CVE-2014-2277)

Summary:	CVE-2014-2277 perltidy: insecure temporary file creation
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Murray McAllister <mmcallis>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	lxtnow, mmaslano, paul, perl-devel, perl-maint-list, ppisar, ville.skytta
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Bug Depends On:	1074721, 1074722, 1074723
Bug Blocks:	1072135

Description Murray McAllister 2014-03-11 00:53:48 UTC

Jakub Wilk discovered that perltidy's make_temporary_filename() function insecurely created temporary files via the use of the tmpnam() function. A local attacker could use this flaw to perform a symbolic link attack.

Fix from Don Armstrong: http://git.donarmstrong.com/?p=perltidy.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/fix_insecure_tmpnam_usage_740670

Comment 1 Murray McAllister 2014-03-11 00:54:50 UTC

MITRE assigned CVE-2014-2277 to this issue:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/533

Comment 2 Murray McAllister 2014-03-11 00:56:09 UTC

Created perltidy tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1074721]
Affects: epel-5 [bug 1074722]

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2014-03-24 06:37:23 UTC

perltidy-20130922-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2014-03-24 06:39:20 UTC

perltidy-20130922-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Murray McAllister 2014-07-17 04:47:47 UTC

Statement:

This issue affects the versions of perltidy as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2014-12-11 06:33:59 UTC

perltidy-20070801-2.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-06-16 09:04:02 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2014-2277