Bug 1451068 (CVE-2017-8933)

Summary:	CVE-2017-8933 menu-cache: Insecure temporary file creation in get_socket_name function
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	christoph.wickert, mtasaka, projects.rg, than
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Description Adam Mariš 2017-05-15 17:03:59 UTC

Insecure temporary file creation in get_socket_name function was found leading to potential access violation.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/lxde/menu-cache/commit/56f66684592abf257c4004e6e1fff041c64a12ce

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-05-15 17:04:13 UTC

Acknowledgments:

Name: Mamoru Tasaka

Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2017-05-15 17:04:32 UTC

Created menu-cache tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1451069]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1451070]

Comment 3 Adam Mariš 2017-05-15 18:23:10 UTC

CVE-2017-7499 was rejected!

Comment 4 Adam Mariš 2017-05-15 18:25:27 UTC

External References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q2/260

Comment 5 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 03:12:43 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.