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Bug 1043849

Summary: yum-rhn-plugin: slightly insecure use of /var/tmp
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Florian Weimer <fweimer>
Component: yum-rhn-pluginAssignee: Michael Mráka <mmraka>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Red Hat Satellite QA List <satqe-list>
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Version: 6.5CC: cperry, msuchy, mzazrivec
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Last Closed: 2014-11-10 14:25:45 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Florian Weimer 2013-12-17 10:50:48 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1043847 +++

touch follows symlinks, so this %pre script allows creation of zero-length files (as seen in yum-rhn-plugin-2.0.1-2):

%pre
# 682820 - re-enable yum-rhn-plugin after package upgrade if the system is already registered
export pluginconf='/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf'
if [ $1 -gt 1 ] && [ -f /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid ] && [ -f "$pluginconf" ]; then
    if grep -q '^[[:space:]]*enabled[[:space:]]*=[[:space:]]*1[[:space:]]*$' \
       "$pluginconf"; then
        touch /var/tmp/enable-yum-rhn-plugin
    fi
fi

The flag should be stored somewhere else, perhaps in /etc.

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2014-11-10 14:25:45 UTC
Development Management has reviewed and declined this request.
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