Bug 715540 (CVE-2011-2533)

Summary:	CVE-2011-2533 dbus: Possibility of symlink attack in /tmp during compilation
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	davidz, lpoetter, rhughes, walters, walters
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-06-23 09:18:31 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2011-2533 to
the following vulnerability:

The configure script in D-Bus (aka DBus) 1.2.x before 1.2.28 allows
local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an
unspecified file in /tmp/.

References:
[1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2533
[2] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/tree/NEWS?h=dbus-1.2

Upstream patch:
[3] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/commit/?h=dbus-1.2&id=4df3e187b482a2bf2230c36c4b1c7bc4d439d51a

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-06-23 10:08:12 UTC

Statement:

This issue is compile-time only and does not affect binary dbus packages, shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. We therefore currently have no plans to fix this flaw in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.