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Bug 436906 (CVE-2012-3500)

Summary: <dev-util/rpmdevtools-8.3: Race condition in devscripts (CVE-2012-3500)
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot <glsamaker>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: trivial CC: sochotnicky
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-3500
Whiteboard: ~3 [noglsa]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2012-10-02 00:53:35 UTC
CVE-2012-3500 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-3500):
  scripts/annotate-output.sh in devscripts before 2.12.2, as used in
  rpmdevtools before 8.3, allows local users to modify arbitrary files via a
  symlink attack on the temporary (1) standard output or (2) standard error
  output file.
Comment 1 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-12-04 08:36:01 UTC
Bumped to 8.3 and removed older version.
Comment 2 Sean Amoss (RETIRED) gentoo-dev Security 2012-12-04 22:37:54 UTC
Thanks, Tomáš!

Closing noglsa for ~arch only issue.