Bug 1221232 - pdf2djvu: insecure temporary file use
Summary: pdf2djvu: insecure temporary file use
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1221233 1221235
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-05-13 14:30 UTC by Martin Prpič
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:32 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: pdf2djvu 0.7.21
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:41:09 UTC

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Description Martin Prpič 2015-05-13 14:30:15 UTC 
Jakub Wilk reports that pdf2djvu incorrectly creates a temporary file in /tmp and passes the name of the file to c44 (a command-line IW44 encoder). "Unfortunately, it turns out that c44 deletes the output file, and then creates a new one under the same name (without O_EXCL). This opens a race window, during which malicious user could their own file under this name."

Additional information:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q2/399

Upstream bug:

https://bitbucket.org/jwilk/pdf2djvu/issue/103

Upstream patch:

https://bitbucket.org/jwilk/pdf2djvu/commits/62c3c48098d6
Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2015-05-13 14:30:46 UTC 
Created pdf2djvu tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1221233]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1221235]
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2015-12-26 23:24:12 UTC 
pdf2djvu-0.7.21-1.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 3 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:41:09 UTC 
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.
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