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Bug 98817

Summary:	CAN-2003-0440 semi has tmp file vulnerability
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1	Reporter:	Jens Petersen <petersen>
Component:	semi	Assignee:	Jens Petersen <petersen>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	2.1	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	noarch
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-339
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Description Jens Petersen 2003-07-09 07:24:26 UTC

Description of problem:
CAN-2003-0440

Quoting from DSA-339-1:

semi, a MIME library for GNU Emacs, does not take appropriate
security precautions when creating temporary files.  This bug could
potentially be exploited to overwrite arbitrary files with the
privileges of the user running Emacs and semi, potentially with
contents supplied by the attacker.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
semi-1.14.3

Comment 1 Mark J. Cox 2003-07-09 10:43:36 UTC

Affects: 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Affects: 2.1AS 2.1AW 2.1ES 2.1WS

Comment 2 Mark J. Cox 2003-07-11 08:46:33 UTC

RHSA-2003:231 in progress

Comment 3 Mark J. Cox 2003-10-02 19:53:59 UTC

An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. 
This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen 
this bug report if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-231.html