Bug 144695 - CAN-2005-0069 vim unsafe temporary file usage.
Summary: CAN-2005-0069 vim unsafe temporary file usage.
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: vim
Version: 3.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Josh Bressers
QA Contact: David Lawrence
URL:
Whiteboard: impact=low,public=20050109
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-01-10 19:10 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-02-18 15:22:25 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2005:122 0 low SHIPPED_LIVE Low: vim security update 2005-02-18 05:00:00 UTC

Description Josh Bressers 2005-01-10 19:10:15 UTC 
Two insecure temporary file vulns have been reported to the debian BTS.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=289560

The issues refer to the usage of temporary files using the process PID as the
"randomness".  I would not be surprised if this isn't the only scripts in vim
that do this.
Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-01-10 19:13:04 UTC 
This issue should also affect RHEL2.1
Comment 4 Karsten Hopp 2005-01-11 13:23:42 UTC 
vim-6.3.046-0.30E.2 is the fixed version for RHEL-3
vim-6.3.046-0.40E.2       "  "               RHEL-4
vim-6.0-7.20              "  "               AS-2.1
Comment 6 Josh Bressers 2005-02-18 15:22:25 UTC 
An advisory 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-2005-122.html
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