Bug 2185301

Summary:	CVE-2023-29465 flintqs: temp files with predictable names written to /tmp [epel-all]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	Zack Miele <zmiele>
Component:	flintqs	Assignee:	Ben Beasley <code>
Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	epel8	CC:	code, loganjerry
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Last Closed:	2023-11-05 21:49:18 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	2185300

Description Zack Miele 2023-04-07 20:32:56 UTC

More information about this security flaw is available in the following bug:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185300

Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

Comment 1 Zack Miele 2023-04-07 20:32:58 UTC

Use the following template to for the 'fedpkg update' request to submit an
update for this issue as it contains the top-level parent bug(s) as well as
this tracking bug.  This will ensure that all associated bugs get updated
when new packages are pushed to stable.

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# bugfix, security, enhancement, newpackage (required)
type=security

# low, medium, high, urgent (required)
severity=low

# testing, stable
request=testing

# Bug numbers: 1234,9876
bugs=2185300,2185301

# Description of your update
notes=Security fix for [PUT CVEs HERE]

# Enable request automation based on the stable/unstable karma thresholds
autokarma=True
stable_karma=3
unstable_karma=-3

# Automatically close bugs when this marked as stable
close_bugs=True

# Suggest that users restart after update
suggest_reboot=False

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Additionally, you may opt to use the bodhi web interface to submit updates:

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/new

Comment 2 Ben Beasley 2023-04-10 17:42:56 UTC

This package is primarily a sagemath dependency. Upstream intends to incorporate the algorithm into sagemath rather than fixing the vulnerable command-line tool, so an upstream patch will not be forthcoming. In Fedora, the command-line tool needs to stay in the repositories until sagemath no longer requires it. In the EPELs, sagemath is not packaged, so flintqs is a leaf package. I’ve started the process of retiring this package in all three EPEL branches by sending the requisite email to epel-devel:

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/Q5KRJDTNDRJVIVLG4SYDVSDRXEXZ5TDP/

Comment 3 Ben Beasley 2023-11-05 21:49:18 UTC

This package was retired in all EPEL branches on 2023-04-17.