Bug 677607 (CVE-2011-1031)

Summary:	CVE-2011-1031 feh: Ability to create arbitrary files via a symlink attack
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:	ivazqueznet
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OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	feh 1.11.2	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Bug Depends On:	676390
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-02-15 11:04:04 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2011-1031 to
the following vulnerability:

The feh_unique_filename function in utils.c in feh 1.11.2 and earlier
might allow local users to create arbitrary files via a symlink attack
on a /tmp/feh_ temporary file, a different vulnerability than
CVE-2011-0702.

References:
[1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-1031
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676389
[3] https://derf.homelinux.org/git/feh/commit/?id=23421a86cc826dd30f3dc4f62057fafb04b3ac40
[4] https://derf.homelinux.org/git/feh/commit/?id=29ab0855f044ef2fe9c295b72abefcb37f0861a5
[5] https://github.com/derf/feh/issues/#issue/32
[6] http://secunia.com/advisories/43221

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-02-15 11:05:40 UTC

Created feh tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 676390]

Comment 2 Vincent Danen 2012-09-11 15:38:07 UTC

This was fixed in 1.11.2:

http://feh.finalrewind.org/archive/

And fixed in Fedora via the update to 1.14.1:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=250264