Bug 2185300 (CVE-2023-29465)

Summary:	CVE-2023-29465 flintqs: temp files with predictable names written to /tmp
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Zack Miele <zmiele>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Zack Miele 2023-04-07 20:32:51 UTC

SageMath FlintQS 1.0 relies on pathnames under TMPDIR (typically world-writable), which (for example) allows a local user to overwrite files with the privileges of a different user (who is running FlintQS).

https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/35419
https://github.com/sagemath/FlintQS/issues/3

Comment 1 Zack Miele 2023-04-07 20:33:06 UTC

Created flintqs tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2185301]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2185302]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2023-04-08 01:05:34 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.