Bug 639869 (CVE-2011-0012)

Summary: CVE-2011-0012 spice-xpi: symlink attack on usbrdrctl log file
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Petr Matousek <pmatouse>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: hdegoede, iheim, jrb, mkrcmari, phatina, pmatouse, Rhev-m-bugs, security-response-team, stransky, vdanen, ykaul
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Description Petr Matousek 2010-10-04 09:06:17 UTC 
Spice-xpi uses predictable name for usbrdrctl 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 2011-04-07 22:20:02 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2011:0426 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0426.html
Comment 3 Peter Hatina 2012-02-27 15:17:31 UTC 
This bug has been fixed almost a year ago, closing.