Bug 1212788 (CVE-2015-1839) - CVE-2015-1839 salt: insecure /tmp file handling in salt/modules/chef.py
Summary: CVE-2015-1839 salt: insecure /tmp file handling in salt/modules/chef.py
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2015-1839
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1212789 1212790
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-04-17 10:14 UTC by Vasyl Kaigorodov
Modified: 2023-05-12 08:51 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version: SaltStack 2014.7.4
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:40:53 UTC
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Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-04-17 10:14:30 UTC 
Michael Scherer of Red Hat reported an insecure /tmp file handling in salt/modules/chef.py in SaltStack.
This issue is fixed in SaltStack version 2014.7.4 with these commits:

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/22d2f7a1ec93300c34e8c42d14ec39d51e610b5c
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/b49d0d4b5ca5c6f31f03e2caf97cef1088eeed81

External References:

http://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2014.7.4.html

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Michael Scherer of Red Hat for reporting this issue.

Statement:

This issue did not affect versions of salt as shipped with Red Hat Red Hat Ceph Storage as they did not include the vulnerable module.
Comment 1 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-04-17 10:15:38 UTC 
Created salt tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1212789]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1212790]
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2016-01-15 23:25:22 UTC 
salt-2015.5.8-1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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