Bug 460658 (CVE-2008-3931)
Summary: | CVE-2008-3931 R: Insecure auxiliary /tmp file usage (symlink attack possible) | ||||||
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Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov> | ||||
Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> | ||||
Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |||||
Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |||||
Priority: | low | ||||||
Version: | unspecified | CC: | tcallawa | ||||
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security | ||||
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Hardware: | All | ||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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Last Closed: | 2010-03-29 11:23:10 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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Description
Jan Lieskovsky
2008-08-29 14:38:25 UTC
Original Debian Bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496363 Created attachment 315373 [details]
Fix for temp bug with R javareconf script
Filed with R upstream: http://bugs.r-project.org/cgi-bin/R/incoming?id=12636 rpy-1.0.3-3.fc8,R-2.7.2-1.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rpy-1.0.3-3.fc8,R-2.7.2-1.fc8 rpy-1.0.3-3.fc9,R-2.7.2-1.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rpy-1.0.3-3.fc9,R-2.7.2-1.fc9 CVE-2008-3931: javareconf in R 2.7.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files. rpy-1.0.3-3.fc8, R-2.7.2-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. rpy-1.0.3-3.fc9, R-2.7.2-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |