Bug 124396 – CAN-2004-0422 flim temporary file vulnerability affects semi packages

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Bug 124396 - CAN-2004-0422 flim temporary file vulnerability affects semi packages

Summary:	CAN-2004-0422 flim temporary file vulnerability affects semi packages

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

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Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	semi (Show other bugs)
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Version:	2.1
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Jens Petersen
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Keywords:	Security

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Reported:	2004-05-26 06:39 EDT by Mark J. Cox
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:06 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2004-08-18 10:52:18 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2004:344	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Low: semi security update	2004-08-18 00:00:00 EDT

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Description Mark J. Cox 2004-05-26 06:39:02 EDT

According to Debian advisory DSA 500-1:

Tatsuya Kinoshita discovered a vulnerability in flim, an emacs library
for working with internet messages, where temporary files were created
without taking appropriate precautions.  This vulnerability could
potentially be exploited by a local user to overwrite files with the
privileges of the user running emacs.

Issue is public but low risk.

         CAN-2004-0422 Affects: 2.1AS 2.1AW 2.1ES 2.1WS

Comment 2 John Flanagan 2004-08-18 10:52:18 EDT

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-2004-344.html

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