Bug 144880 - 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 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: vim
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Karsten Hopp
QA Contact: David Lawrence
URL:
Whiteboard: impact=low,public=20050109
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-01-12 12:58 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-02-15 09:36:19 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2005:036 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Low: vim security update 2005-02-15 05:00:00 UTC

Description Josh Bressers 2005-01-12 12:58:06 UTC 
*** This bug has been split off bug 144695 ***

------- Original comment by Josh Bressers (Security Response Team) on 2005.01.10
14:10 -------

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 Mark J. Cox 2005-02-15 09:36:19 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-2005-036.html
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