Bug 1451068 (CVE-2017-8933) - CVE-2017-8933 menu-cache: Insecure temporary file creation in get_socket_name function
Summary: CVE-2017-8933 menu-cache: Insecure temporary file creation in get_socket_name...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2017-8933
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1451069 1451070
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-05-15 17:03 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-17 02:09 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:12:43 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2017-05-15 17:03:59 UTC 
Insecure temporary file creation in get_socket_name function was found leading to potential access violation.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/lxde/menu-cache/commit/56f66684592abf257c4004e6e1fff041c64a12ce
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-05-15 17:04:13 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Mamoru Tasaka
Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2017-05-15 17:04:32 UTC 
Created menu-cache tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1451069]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1451070]
Comment 3 Adam Mariš 2017-05-15 18:23:10 UTC 
CVE-2017-7499 was rejected!
Comment 4 Adam Mariš 2017-05-15 18:25:27 UTC 
External References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q2/260
Comment 5 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 03:12:43 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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