Bug 168945 - arc: insecure temp file creation (CAN-2005-2945)
Summary: arc: insecure temp file creation (CAN-2005-2945)
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: arc
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nicolas Mailhot
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename....
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-09-21 15:23 UTC by Ville Skyttä
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-10-08 10:40:48 UTC
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Description Ville Skyttä 2005-09-21 15:23:49 UTC
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2945 
 
Proposed patch: 
http://seclists.org/lists/fulldisclosure/2005/Sep/0540.html 
 
BTW, Debian ships version 5.21l which according to the changelog also contains 
some buffer overflow fixes.

Comment 1 Nicolas Mailhot 2005-09-21 17:24:26 UTC
I'll release 5.21l this week-end. Then probably declare arc orphaned.

I have little confidence in arc's code. It's old and licensing problems kept it
frozen for a long time. Since amavisd can use nomarch instead I have no need for
arc anymore. 

Unless people are actively fixing arc now it's GPL and work on nomarch stopped.
Didin't look at both projects lately.

Comment 2 Ville Skyttä 2005-10-07 07:28:49 UTC
ping 

Comment 3 Nicolas Mailhot 2005-10-08 10:40:48 UTC
Should be building.
Didn't check if it actually works after the build, the number of warnings is
still sky-high
Orphaning this pile of old code now, even the latest and greatest needed a build
patch :(. Seems even freebsd does not care anymore.


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