Bug 1212784 – CVE-2015-1838 salt: insecure /tmp file handling in salt/modules/serverdensity_device.py

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Bug 1212784 - (CVE-2015-1838) CVE-2015-1838 salt: insecure /tmp file handling in salt/modules/serverdensity_device.py

Summary:	CVE-2015-1838 salt: insecure /tmp file handling in salt/modules/serverdensity...

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2015-1838

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Hardware:	All Linux

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Depends On:	1212789 1212790
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Reported:	2015-04-17 06:10 EDT by Vasyl Kaigorodov
Modified:	2016-03-04 05:41 EST (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	SaltStack 2014.7.4
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Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-04-17 06:10:10 EDT

Michael Scherer of Red Hat reported an insecure /tmp file handling in salt/modules/serverdensity_device.py in SaltStack.
This issue is fixed in SaltStack version 2014.7.4 with this commit:

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/e11298d7155e9982749483ca5538e46090caef9c

External References:

http://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2014.7.4.html

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Michael Scherer of Red Hat for reporting this issue.

Statement:

This issue did not affect versions of salt as shipped with Red Hat Red Hat Ceph Storage as they did not include the vulnerable module.

Comment 1 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-04-17 06:15:16 EDT

Created salt tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1212789]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1212790]

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2016-01-15 18:25:17 EST

salt-2015.5.8-1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

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