Bug 617312 – CVE-2010-2539 MapServer: Buffer overflow by generating unique temporary filename(s) (Trac#3484)

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Bug 617312 - (CVE-2010-2539) CVE-2010-2539 MapServer: Buffer overflow by generating unique temporary filename(s) (Trac#3484)

Summary:	CVE-2010-2539 MapServer: Buffer overflow by generating unique temporary filen...

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	CVE-2010-2539

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Depends On:	617314
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Reported:	2010-07-22 14:49 EDT by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified:	2015-08-21 18:40 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2015-08-21 18:40:45 EDT
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2010-07-22 14:49:43 EDT

MapServer upstream during a security audit of MapServer v5.6 source
code found a potential buffer overflow in the way MapServer generated
unique temporary filenames. A local attacker could use this flaw to
conduct denial of service attacks.

References:
  [1] http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/3484

Upstream patch (against 5-4 SVN branch):
  [2] http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/changeset/10310

Upstream patch (against trunk):
  [3] http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/changeset/10318

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-07-22 14:51:29 EDT

This issue affects the versions of the mapserver package, as shipped
with Fedora release of 12 and 13.

Please fix.

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-07-22 14:53:04 EDT

Created mapserver tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 617314]

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