Bug 927430 (CVE-2013-2561)

Summary:	CVE-2013-2561 ibutils: insecure handling of files in the /tmp directory
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	dledford, jfeeney
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Bug Depends On:	958569, 1012222
Bug Blocks:	927433, 974906

Description Vincent Danen 2013-03-25 21:45:52 UTC

It was reported [1] that ibutils 1.5.7 suffered from a flaw due to improper handling of files in the /tmp directory.  This makes ibutils vulnerable to symlink attacks, which could be used to overwrite arbitrary files on the system.


[1] http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Mar/87

Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-03-26 06:08:37 UTC

This issue has been assigned CVE-2013-1894 via:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q1/741

Comment 2 Vincent Danen 2013-03-26 14:49:34 UTC

This was actually assigned CVE-2013-2561 before the above assignment:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/19/8

CVE-2013-1894 needs to be rejected.

Comment 5 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-03-27 04:21:53 UTC

Statement:

(none)

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2013-11-21 21:35:56 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:1661 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1661.html