Bug 158997

Summary: CAN-2005-1751 shtool insecure temporary file creation
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: phpAssignee: Joe Orton <jorton>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version: 4.0Keywords: Security
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-05-27 15:27:23 UTC
Race condition in shtool 2.0.1 and earlier allows local users to
create or modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the
.shtool.$$ temporary file.
http://www.zataz.net/adviso/shtool-05252005.txt

php contains shtool in its source.

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-05-27 15:27:49 UTC
This issue should also affect RHEL2.1 and RHEL3

Comment 2 Joe Orton 2005-05-27 15:48:25 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 159000 ***