Bug 98924

Summary:	CAN-2003-0539 ddskk temporary file vulnerability
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1	Reporter:	Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component:	ddskk	Assignee:	Jens Petersen <petersen>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Bill Huang <bhuang>
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Version:	2.1	Keywords:	Security
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Description Mark J. Cox 2003-07-10 14:31:20 UTC

ddskk is a simple Kana to Kanji conversion program for Emacs.  ddskk has a
temporary file creation vulnerability allowing overwriting of arbitrary files as
the user running ddskk.

Comment 1 Mark J. Cox 2003-07-22 09:06:11 UTC

*** Bug 100419 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Mark J. Cox 2003-07-29 18:16:52 UTC

RHSA-2003:242 currently awaiting testing

Comment 3 Mark J. Cox 2003-08-11 07:24:20 UTC

An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. 
This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen 
this bug report if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-242.html