Bug 332881 (CVE-2007-5377) - CVE-2007-5377 emacs tramp unsafe temporary file usage
Summary: CVE-2007-5377 emacs tramp unsafe temporary file usage
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2007-5377
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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URL: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=C...
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-10-15 17:39 UTC by Tomas Hoger
Modified: 2021-11-12 19:45 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-10-16 14:19:33 UTC
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Description Tomas Hoger 2007-10-15 17:39:21 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2007-5377 to the following vulnerability:

The (1) tramp-make-temp-file and (2) tramp-make-tramp-temp-file functions in Tramp 2.1.10 extension for Emacs, and possibly earlier 2.1.x versions, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

References:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194713
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg00132.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg00158.html
Comment 5 Tomas Hoger 2007-10-16 14:19:33 UTC 
This problem was introduced by CVS commit:

http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/emacs/emacs/lisp/net/tramp.el?view=log#rev1.142

Version of emacs currently shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora are
not affected by this problem.
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