Bug 166672

Summary: CVE-2005-2672 lm_sensors pwmconfig insecure temporary file usage
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: lm_sensorsAssignee: Phil Knirsch <pknirsch>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 4.0CC: poelstra, rvokal
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: impact=low,reported=20050824,public=20050814,source=vendorsec
Fixed In Version: RHSA-2005-825 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Upstream patch from CVS none

Description Josh Bressers 2005-08-24 15:11:48 UTC
A bug was found in lm_sensors' pwmconfig tool which uses temporary files in an
insecure manner.

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-08-24 15:12:33 UTC
This issue should also affect RHEL2.1 and RHEL3

Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2005-08-24 15:13:40 UTC
Created attachment 118071 [details]
Upstream patch from CVS

Comment 6 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-11-10 19:19:39 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-2005-825.html