Bug 1449113 (CVE-2016-10369) - CVE-2016-10369 lxterminal: Insecure use of /tmp for a socket file
Summary: CVE-2016-10369 lxterminal: Insecure use of /tmp for a socket file
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2016-10369
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1449114
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-05-09 09:07 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:12:03 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-05-09 09:07:21 UTC 
unixsocket.c in lxterminal through insecurely uses /tmp for a socket file, allowing a local user to cause a denial of service (preventing terminal launch), or possibly have other impact (bypassing terminal access control).

References:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/333539/lxterminal-in-the-netstat-output/333578

Upstream patch:

https://git.lxde.org/gitweb/?p=lxde/lxterminal.git;a=commit;h=f99163c6ff8b2f57c5f37b1ce5d62cf7450d4648
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-05-09 09:07:48 UTC 
Created lxterminal tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1449114]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 03:12:03 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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