Bug 332881 (CVE-2007-5377)

Summary:	CVE-2007-5377 emacs tramp unsafe temporary file usage
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	coldwell
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OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2007-5377
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Description Tomas Hoger 2007-10-15 17:39:21 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2007-5377 to the following vulnerability:

The (1) tramp-make-temp-file and (2) tramp-make-tramp-temp-file functions in Tramp 2.1.10 extension for Emacs, and possibly earlier 2.1.x versions, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

References:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194713
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg00132.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg00158.html

Comment 5 Tomas Hoger 2007-10-16 14:19:33 UTC

This problem was introduced by CVS commit:

http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/emacs/emacs/lisp/net/tramp.el?view=log#rev1.142

Version of emacs currently shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora are
not affected by this problem.