Bug 145577

Summary: CAN-2005-0077 perl-DBI insecure temporary file usage
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: perl-DBIAssignee: Chip Turner <cturner>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Version: 3.0CC: security-response-team
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-01-19 21:14:51 UTC 
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit Project
discovered that the DBI library, the Perl5 database interface, creates
a tmporary file in an insecure manner.  This can be exploited by a
malicious user to overwrite arbitrary files owned by the person
executing the program.

This will be disclosed on Tuesday the 25th.

Patch attached that will remove the use of this pid file.
Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-01-19 21:14:52 UTC 
Created attachment 109991 [details]
Proposed patch for this issue.
Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2005-01-19 21:15:58 UTC 
This issue should also affect RHEL2.1
Comment 3 Chip Turner 2005-01-24 20:55:39 UTC 
okay packages have been built into:

dist-2.1AS-errata-candidate
dist-3.0E-errata-candidate
dist-4E-errata-candidate

from the appropriate -embargo branches.
Comment 4 Chip Turner 2005-01-24 20:56:02 UTC 
errata has been created and filed into the process
Comment 5 Mark J. Cox 2005-01-25 19:44:44 UTC 
Removing embargo
Comment 6 Mark J. Cox 2005-02-01 14:49:06 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-069.html
Comment 7 Mark J. Cox 2005-02-15 09:56:52 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-072.html