Bug 2185302

Summary:	CVE-2023-29465 flintqs: temp files with predictable names written to /tmp [fedora-all]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Zack Miele <zmiele>
Component:	flintqs	Assignee:	Ben Beasley <code>
Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	37	CC:	code, loganjerry
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Bug Blocks:	2185300

Description Zack Miele 2023-04-07 20:32:59 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 20:33:01 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=2185300,2185302

# 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 17:48:33 UTC

This package is primarily a sagemath dependency. Upstream intends to incorporate the algorithm into sagemath rather than fixing the vulnerable command-line tool[1], 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, at which point I can retire the package in Rawhide. I have not decided whether or not I will attempt a downstream-only patch to fix the insecure temporary file usage for stable releases.

[1] https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/35419

Comment 3 Ben Beasley 2023-11-05 21:55:47 UTC

Since sagemath was retired for F39, nothing depends on this package in Rawhide.

Since sagemath 10.0 and later have removed the dependency on this package, retiring this package will not interfere with any hypothetical future effort to revive sagemath in Fedora.

Therefore, I’m retiring this package in Rawhide.