Bug 748761 (CVE-2009-5054)

Summary: CVE-2009-5054 php-Smarty: Does not consider the umask value when setting the permissions of files
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-10-25 10:12:31 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2009-5054 to
the following vulnerability:

Smarty before 3.0.0 beta 4 does not consider the umask value when setting the permissions of files, which might allow attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via standard filesystem operations. 

References:
[1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-5054
[2] http://smarty-php.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/distribution/change_log.txt
Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-10-25 10:18:02 UTC 
Relevant Changelog entry:

------- beta 4
11/18/2009
- observe umask settings when setting file permissions

And particular SVN log entry to it:

r3351 | Uwe.Tews | 2009-11-18 18:25:18 +0100 (Wed, 18 Nov 2009) | 3 lines

- observe umask settings when setting file permissions
- avoide unneeded cache file creation for subtemplates which did occur in some situations
Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-10-25 10:18:44 UTC 
Created attachment 530046 [details]
Smarty r3351 upstream patch
Comment 3 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-10-25 10:26:39 UTC 
This issue did NOT affect the versions of the php-Smarty package, as shipped with Fedora release of 14 and 15 (the particular code in question is not present in those versions yet).

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This issue did NOT affect the versions of the php-Smarty package, as shipped with Fedora EPEL 5 and Fedora EPEL 6 repositories (the particular code in question is not present in those versions yet).