Bug 253541 (CVE-2007-4462)
| Summary: | CVE-2007-4462 New release of po4a fixes insecure /tmp file usage | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak> |
| Component: | po4a | Assignee: | Axel Thimm <axel.thimm> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 7 | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://alioth.debian.org/frs/shownotes.php?group_id=30267&release_id=1019 | ||
| Whiteboard: | impact=low,source=gentoo | ||
| Fixed In Version: | 0.32-4.fc7 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2007-08-24 05:37:12 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Mitre assigned the identifier CVE-2007-4462 to this issue. po4a-0.32-4.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |
Description of problem: The new release of po4a fixes a potential security problem (information leak) due to use of predictable name in /tmp. This line in po4a-0.29/lib/Locale/Po4a/Po.pm file is problematic: 454 $pores->write("/tmp/gettextization.failed.po"); Additional info: A CVE name for this issue has been requested. Reference to Gentoo Bugzilla: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189440