Bug 79682 - xpdf - unsafe temporary files
Summary: xpdf - unsafe temporary files
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification: Retired
Component: xpdf
Version: 1.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Than Ngo
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-12-15 00:39 UTC by Michal Jaegermann
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:49 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-03-31 15:15:10 UTC
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Description Michal Jaegermann 2002-12-15 00:39:39 UTC
Description of problem:

During compilation of xpdf gcc comes twice with warnings:

gfile.o(.text+0x4d9): the use of `tmpnam' is dangerous, better use `mkstemp'

The problem is really that code from goo/gfile.cc

  //---------- Unix ----------
  char *s;
  int fd;

  if (ext) {
#if HAVE_MKSTEMPS
    /* .... */
#else
    if (!(s = tmpnam(NULL))) {
      return gFalse;
    }
    *name = new GString(s);
    (*name)->append(ext);
    fd = open((*name)->getCString(), O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, 0600);
#endif
  } else {
.....

AFAIK this branch is not even really used in the current version of xpdf
but the problem is a need for 'ext' which is not supported by 'mkstemp()'.
True, O_EXCL flag is used to 'open()' but this will not help really if
a directory where this is happening will be mounted, say, via NFS.
Likely a remote possibility of an attack but it exists.

A simple way to close the bug for now would be to comment out the whole
branch.  In general, in an absence of mkstemps(),  mkdtemp() likely should
be used to create a temporary subdirectory where files with desired
extenstions can be safely opened and the whole directory should be removed
on exit.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xpdf-2.01-2 but the same code is actually in earlier versions as well.

Comment 1 Than Ngo 2003-03-31 15:15:10 UTC
it's fixed in 2.02-2 or newer.


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