Bug 710462 (CVE-2011-2185)

Summary:	CVE-2011-2185 fabric: Use of insecure temporary file by uploading templates and projects to remote hosts
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	jrusnack, lmacken, silas
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	710465
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-06-03 13:18:46 UTC

It was found that fabric, a simple Pythonic remote deployment tool,
used insecure way for creation of temporary files, when uploading
template text files and project files to a remote system. A local attacker
could use this flaw to conduct symlink attacks to upload sensitive
information to remote host or to overwrite certain local system files.

References:
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629003

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-06-03 13:23:38 UTC

CVE Request:
[2] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/03/5

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-06-03 13:24:19 UTC

This issue affects the versions of the fabric package, as shipped with
Fedora release of 13, 14, and 15. Please schedule an update, once final
upstream patch known.

Comment 3 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-06-03 13:25:26 UTC

Created fabric tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 710465]

Comment 4 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-06-07 09:15:04 UTC

The CVE identifier of CVE-2011-2185 has been assigned to this issue:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/06/12