Bug 168142

Summary: CAN-2004-1296 groff temporary file vulnerabilities in pic2graph and eqn2graph
Product: [Retired] Fedora Legacy Reporter: David Eisenstein <deisenst>
Component: groffAssignee: Fedora Legacy Bugs <bugs>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: marc.deslauriers, pekkas
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URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1296
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Patch for CAN-2004-1296 none

Description David Eisenstein 2005-09-12 20:48:22 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #152840 +++

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1296

The (1) eqn2graph and (2) pic2graph scripts in groff 1.18.1 allow local users
to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

Ref:  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/18660
Ref:  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=286371
Ref:  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=286372
Comment 1 David Eisenstein 2005-09-12 20:48:23 UTC 
Created attachment 118741 [details]
Patch for CAN-2004-1296
Comment 2 David Eisenstein 2005-09-12 21:20:56 UTC 
Red Hat 7.3 not vulnerable; does not contain the eqn2graph nor pic2graph
components.
Comment 3 David Eisenstein 2007-04-12 00:42:18 UTC 
Red Hat Linux and Fedora Core releases <=4 are now completely unmaintained.
These bugs can't be fixed in these versions.  If the issue still persists in
current Fedora Core releases, please reopen.  Thank you, and sorry about this.