Bug 30031

Summary:	joe tries to use ./.joerc
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Pekka Savola <pekkas>
Component:	joe	Assignee:	Trond Eivind Glomsrxd <teg>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	high
Version:	7.0	Keywords:	Security
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Description Pekka Savola 2001-02-28 17:21:43 UTC

As per:

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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 15:13:42 +0100
From: advisories
To: BUGTRAQ
Subject: Joe's Own Editor File Handling Error
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Joe tries to use ./.joerc for it's configuration file.  If joe is used in a world-writable
directory, attacker can create .joerc there with malicious definitions that may
lead to to local user login (/root if root uses joe) compromise.

Don't they ever learn...

Comment 1 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-02-28 22:15:05 UTC

Doh. Stuuuupid people. (not that any non-newbie would use joe on a regular basis
anyway). Fixed in joe-2.8-44.

Comment 2 Seth Vidal 2001-03-01 06:36:58 UTC

this should really be a fix that gets pushed out to 6.X and 7.0 - its a dumb
error but it could be exploited and I know (I am) a person who uses joe all the
time.

course - I've already patched my joe rpm :)

-sv

Comment 3 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-03-01 07:01:41 UTC

I've already made rpms and an errata request for 5.2, 6.2 and 7.