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Bug 715540 - (CVE-2011-2533) CVE-2011-2533 dbus: Possibility of symlink attack in /tmp during compilation
CVE-2011-2533 dbus: Possibility of symlink attack in /tmp during compilation
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Reported: 2011-06-23 05:18 EDT by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2011-06-23 06:56 EDT (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-06-23 05:49:37 EDT
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-06-23 05:18:31 EDT 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2011-2533 to
the following vulnerability:

The configure script in D-Bus (aka DBus) 1.2.x before 1.2.28 allows
local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an
unspecified file in /tmp/.

References:
[1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2533
[2] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/tree/NEWS?h=dbus-1.2

Upstream patch:
[3] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/commit/?h=dbus-1.2&id=4df3e187b482a2bf2230c36c4b1c7bc4d439d51a
Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-06-23 06:08:12 EDT 
Statement:

This issue is compile-time only and does not affect binary dbus packages, shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. We therefore currently have no plans to fix this flaw in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.
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