Bug 145579 - CAN-2005-0077 perl-DBI insecure temporary file usage
Summary: CAN-2005-0077 perl-DBI insecure temporary file usage
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: perl-DBI
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Chip Turner
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks: 142822
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-01-19 21:23 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2005-02-16 13:26:03 UTC
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-01-19 21:23:39 UTC 
*** This bug has been split off bug 145577 ***

------- Original comment by Josh Bressers (Security Response Team) on 2005.01.19
16:14 -------

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit Project
discovered that the DBI library, the Perl5 database interface, creates
a tmporary file in an insecure manner.  This can be exploited by a
malicious user to overwrite arbitrary files owned by the person
executing the program.

This will be disclosed on Tuesday the 25th.

attachment 109991 [details] contains the proposed patch for this issue.
Comment 1 Jay Turner 2005-02-16 13:26:03 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-2005-072.html
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