Bug 145606

Summary: CAN-2005-0142 Opened attachments are temporarily saved world-readable
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: mozillaAssignee: Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-01-20 01:42:52 UTC 
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Mozilla Security Advisory MSA05-002
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Title:      Opened attachments are temporarily saved world-readable
Severity:   Moderate (on a multiuser computer)
Reporter:   danielk

Fixed in:   Firefox 1.0
            Thunderbird 0.9
            Mozilla Suite 1.7.5

Vulnerable: Firefox 0.9
            Thunderbird 0.6
            Mozilla 1.7


Description
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Mozilla software released after March 2004 saves some temporary files with
world-readable permissions. In the browser this is primarily
content fed to helper applications (for example, PDF files), and in
the mail clients it is attachments.


Workaround
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Do not open sensitive mail attachments on a shared multiuser machine.
Upgrade to fixed version


References
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251297
Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-01-20 01:43:56 UTC 
This issue should affect RHEL2.1
Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2005-04-28 19:11:22 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-2005-384.html