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Bug 618620 (CVE-2017-8933) - <lxde-base/menu-cache-1.1.0: Insecure temporary file creation in get_socket_name function
Summary: <lxde-base/menu-cache-1.1.0: Insecure temporary file creation in get_socket_n...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2017-8933
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal minor (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug....
Whiteboard: B3 [noglsa cve]
Keywords:
: 649706 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 654910
Blocks:
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Reported: 2017-05-16 07:14 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified: 2019-03-10 03:56 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2017-05-16 07:14:14 UTC 
From ${URL} :

Insecure temporary file creation in get_socket_name function was found leading to potential access violation.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/lxde/menu-cache/commit/56f66684592abf257c4004e6e1fff041c64a12ce


@maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.
Comment 1 charles17 2017-08-08 11:13:46 UTC 
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/5355
Comment 2 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2018-03-05 22:00:50 UTC 
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=f661657090a6b55025e0ea37dcef73692c159c6c

commit f661657090a6b55025e0ea37dcef73692c159c6c
Author:     charIes17 <charles17@arcor.de>
AuthorDate: 2017-12-13 20:09:07 +0000
Commit:     Patrice Clement <monsieurp@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2018-03-05 21:57:53 +0000

    lxde-base/menu-cache: fix against CVE-2017-8933.
    
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.13, Repoman-2.3.3
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/618620
    Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/5355

 .../files/menu-cache-1.0.2-CVE-2017-8933.patch     | 122 +++++++++++++++++++++
 lxde-base/menu-cache/menu-cache-1.0.2-r1.ebuild    |  22 ++++
 2 files changed, 144 insertions(+)}
Comment 3 charles17 2018-03-28 05:35:31 UTC 
*** Bug 649706 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 charles17 2018-03-28 05:39:24 UTC 
(In reply to Agostino Sarubbo from comment #0)
> From ${URL} :
> 
> @maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package,
> please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.

I have no authorisation for adding STABLEREQ here. Someone else needs to do.
Comment 5 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2018-12-02 21:08:58 UTC 
1.0.2-r1 is no longer in the tree, but 1.1.0 carries the patch and is stable.

@maintainers, please drop lxde-base/menu-cache-1.0.2