Bug 835076 (CVE-2012-3355)

Summary:	CVE-2012-3355 rhythmbox (context plug-in): Insecure temporary directory use by loading template files for 'Album', 'Lyrics', and 'Artist' tabs
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bnocera, henri, jrusnack
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	835080
Bug Blocks:	835082

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2012-06-25 13:30:40 UTC

An insecure temporary directory use flaw was found in the way Rhythmbox, an integrated music management application based on the powerful GStreamer media framework, performed loading of HTML template files, used for rendering of 'Album', 'Lyrics', and 'Artist' tabs. Previously the '/tmp/context' directory has been searched as module directory when loading the HTML template files. A local attacker could use this flaw to conduct symbolic link attacks (possibly leading to attacker's ability to execute arbitrary HTML template file in the context of user running the rhythmbox executable).

Upstream bug report:
[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678661

References:
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=616673

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-06-25 13:38:56 UTC

This issue did NOT affect the version of the rhythmbox package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, as it did NOT include the context plug-in yet.

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This issue affects the version of the rhythmbox package, as shipped with
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

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This issue affects the versions of the rhythmbox package, as shipped with Fedora release of 16 and 17. Please schedule an update.

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-06-25 13:39:31 UTC

CVE Request:
[3] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/25/5

Comment 3 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-06-25 13:40:34 UTC

Created rhythmbox tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 835080]

Comment 4 Kurt Seifried 2012-06-25 17:05:56 UTC

Added CVE as per http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/25/7

Comment 6 Vincent Danen 2016-06-10 21:45:27 UTC

Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of rhythmbox as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This issue affects the version of rhythmbox as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.