Bug 620356 (CVE-2010-2794)

Summary: CVE-2010-2794 spice-xpi symlink attack
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Petr Matousek <pmatouse>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: bazulay, bsettle, cpelland, iheim, mkenneth, pmatouse, Rhev-m-bugs, security-response-team, stransky
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Description Petr Matousek 2010-08-02 09:59:58 UTC 
Spice-xpi uses predictable name for it's log file which a malicious user could use to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack, with the privileges of the user running spice-xpi.
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2010-08-25 12:12:04 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2010:0651 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0651.html