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:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	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

2012-12-04 22:37:54 UTC

Thanks, Tomáš!

Closing noglsa for ~arch only issue.