Bug 154049

Summary:	CAN-2005-0990 insecure temp file usage
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	sharutils	Assignee:	Than Ngo <than>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Jay Turner <jturner>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	CC:	srevivo
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-04-06 20:45:38 UTC

The way sharutils handles temporary files is insecure (as reported by the Debian
BTS):
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=302412

The Debian bug contains a patch for this issue.

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-04-06 20:46:54 UTC

This issue should also affect RHEL2.1 and RHEL3

Comment 2 Than Ngo 2005-04-14 11:15:32 UTC

it's fixed in sharutils-4.2.1-8.9.x (RHEL2.1) and sharutils-4.2.1-16.2 (RHEL3)

Comment 3 Josh Bressers 2005-04-26 16:31:29 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-2005-377.html