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Bug 136313

Summary: CAN-2004-0969 temporary file vulnerabilities in groffer script
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component: groffAssignee: Jindrich Novy <jnovy>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
Severity: low Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 3.0CC: pknirsch
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: public=20040930,impact=low,reported=20040910,source=vendorsec
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Last Closed: 2005-06-21 10:14:04 UTC Type: ---
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Patch for 1.19 which needs backporting none

Description Mark J. Cox 2004-10-19 10:04:36 UTC 
On September 10th 2004, Trustix shared some temporary file
vulnerabilities with vendor-sec.  After some refinement these were
made public on Sep30.  These are minor issues (impact: LOW) and
therefore should be fixed in future updates, but don't deserve their
own security advisory.

Temporary file vulnerability in groffer.  Patch attached, however the
patch is for groff-1.19 and the groffer script is very different in
the version shipped in RHEL3.  However there looks to be a similar
temporary file vulnerability that could be fixed in a similar way to
the patch.

Does not affect RHEL2.1 packages which do not contain this script.
Comment 1 Mark J. Cox 2004-10-19 10:05:25 UTC 
Created attachment 105435 [details]
Patch for 1.19 which needs backporting
Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2005-06-02 19:29:04 UTC 
Ping on this issue
Comment 3 Jindrich Novy 2005-06-03 10:34:32 UTC 
Mark, Josh, I backpotred the patch and building the errata packages at the moment.
Comment 4 Mark J. Cox 2005-06-21 10:14:04 UTC 
QA found that the groffer script won't run on RHEL3 due to needing packages we
don't ship.  Therefore this won't be fixed.