Bug 1048678 (CVE-2014-0027) - CVE-2014-0027 flite: insecure temporary file use
Summary: CVE-2014-0027 flite: insecure temporary file use
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2014-0027
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1050995 1050997 1050998
Blocks: 1023438 1048682
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-01-06 05:45 UTC by Murray McAllister
Modified: 2023-05-12 01:49 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-01-10 03:08:48 UTC
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proposed patch (1.38 KB, patch)
2014-01-06 14:24 UTC, Rui Matos 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Murray McAllister 2014-01-06 05:45:19 UTC 
It was found that flite, a speech synthesis engine (text-to-speech), insecurely used a temporary file. A local attacker could use this flaw to perform a symbolic link attack to modify an arbitrary file accessible to the user running flite, or possibly obtain sensitive information as the temporary file may contain text-to-speech output (screen contents).

Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of the Red Hat Product Security Team.
Comment 6 Rui Matos 2014-01-06 14:24:51 UTC 
Created attachment 846118 [details]
proposed patch
Comment 11 Murray McAllister 2014-01-09 13:57:27 UTC 
Created flite tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1050997]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1050998]
Comment 12 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-01-10 03:08:48 UTC 
This issue affects the version of flite package as shipped with Fedora 19 and Fedora 20.

This issue affects the version of flite package as shipped with epel-5 and epel-6.
Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2014-02-05 03:38:35 UTC 
flite-1.3-20.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 14 Fedora Update System 2014-02-05 03:43:23 UTC 
flite-1.3-21.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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