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Bug 188808 - >=app-admin/sysstat-7.1 Insecure temporary file usage (CVE-2007-3852)
Summary: >=app-admin/sysstat-7.1 Insecure temporary file usage (CVE-2007-3852)
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL:
Whiteboard: B3 [] jaervosz
Keywords:
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2007-08-14 11:47 UTC by Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED)
Modified: 2007-08-21 06:13 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Attachments
CVE-2007-3852.patch (CVE-2007-3852.patch,981 bytes, patch)
2007-08-14 11:48 UTC, Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-08-14 11:47:11 UTC 
The init script handles /tmp/sysstat.run in an unsafe manner.

Credit should go to Julien L.
Comment 1 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-08-14 11:48:43 UTC 
Created attachment 128039 [details, diff]
CVE-2007-3852.patch

Upstream patch that will be applied to the next release.
Comment 2 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-08-14 11:51:29 UTC 
jer, please advise and patch as necessary.
Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-08-14 17:14:01 UTC 
Which is the next release? Not the development branch (7.1*), I would think.
Comment 4 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-08-14 17:29:07 UTC 
I'm not sure, but I guess the fix for the stable version is pretty close to the patch attached.
Comment 5 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-08-14 18:11:35 UTC 
The patch doesn't apply to the stable 7.0*.
The patch does apply to the unstable 7.1*.

Sadly I cannot access the details of this CVE. I am changing the summary hoping to catch all vulnerable versions.
Comment 6 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-08-14 18:22:56 UTC 
It seems the init.d script from upstream isn't even installed by our ebuild. Instead ${FILESDIR}/sysstat.init.d is installed, so currently we are not vulnerable at all.

I could change the ebuild to put the patched upstream init.d script in /usr/share/doc*, though. Then we'd have somewhat of a vulnerability! :)
Comment 7 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-08-21 06:13:50 UTC 
Thx for the info Jeroen. I should have looked more closely before filing this.