Bug 2185300 (CVE-2023-29465) - CVE-2023-29465 flintqs: temp files with predictable names written to /tmp
Summary: CVE-2023-29465 flintqs: temp files with predictable names written to /tmp
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2023-29465
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 2185301 2185302
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2023-04-07 20:32 UTC by Zack Miele
Modified: 2023-04-08 01:05 UTC (History)
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Description Zack Miele 2023-04-07 20:32:51 UTC 
SageMath FlintQS 1.0 relies on pathnames under TMPDIR (typically world-writable), which (for example) allows a local user to overwrite files with the privileges of a different user (who is running FlintQS).

https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/35419
https://github.com/sagemath/FlintQS/issues/3
Comment 1 Zack Miele 2023-04-07 20:33:06 UTC 
Created flintqs tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2185301]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2185302]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2023-04-08 01:05:34 UTC 
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.
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