Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2009-4193 to the following vulnerability: Merkaartor 0.14 allows local users to append data to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/merkaartor.log temporary file. References: ----------- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-4193 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=548546 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36529 http://osvdb.org/58389 http://secunia.com/advisories/36897 http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/53486 Upstream bug report: -------------------- http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2320
This issue affects the versions of the merkaartor, as shipped with Fedora release of 10, 11, 12 and Fedora Rawhide. Please fix once the patch is available.
F-10 is not affected, as it ships with Merkaartor 0.13 which doesn't have said logging code.
merkaartor-0.14-2.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/merkaartor-0.14-2.fc12
merkaartor-0.14-2.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/merkaartor-0.14-2.fc11
merkaartor-0.14-2.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
merkaartor-0.14-2.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Looks like bodhi wasn't able to close this automatically because of the infrastructure move. Closing ...