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Bug 113842

Summary:	CAN-2003-0924 netpbm temporary file vulnerabilities
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component:	netpbm	Assignee:	Phil Knirsch <pknirsch>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	9	CC:	rvokal
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OS:	Linux
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Description Mark J. Cox 2004-01-19 13:45:33 UTC

A number of temporary file bugs have been found in versions of NetPBM
shipped with Red Hat Linux 9.  These could allow a local attacker the
ability to overwrite or create files as a user running the netpbm
utilities.

Low risk as few programs use the netpbm utilities for image conversion.

Comment 1 Mark J. Cox 2004-02-05 08:46:41 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-2004-030.html

Comment 2 Richard Szabo 2004-05-24 08:41:55 UTC

This "upgrade" will of course affect another error in conjunction to 
PHP and Apache. When uploading a picture, netpbm programs attempt to 
use the mktemp function but fails immensly after sending a parameter 
not compatible with my RedHat system (9.0, kernel mod 2.40-31-9). 

mktemp fails because of parameter -t ( which does not exist on my 
system ) and uploaded pictures are damaged because of the PHP script 
retreiving wrong data as netpbm fails to create the file.