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rpmdevtools: symlink attack

Package(s):rpmdevtools CVE #(s):CVE-2012-3500
Created:September 12, 2012 Updated:April 10, 2013
Description: From the Red Hat bugzilla:

A TOCTOU race condition was found in the way 'annotate-output' (used to execute a program annotating the output linewise with time and stream) tool of rpmdevtools, a suite of scripts and (X)Emacs support files to aid in development of RPM packages, performed management of its temporary files used for standard output and standard error output. A local attacker could use this flaw to conduct symbolic link attacks, possibly leading to their ability in an unauthorized way to alter files belonging to the user running the 'annotate-output' tool.

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2012-13234 2012-09-12
Fedora FEDORA-2012-13263 2012-09-12
Debian DSA-2549-1 2012-09-15
Ubuntu USN-1593-1 2012-10-02
Mageia MGASA-2012-0316 2012-10-29
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:1437-1 2012-11-05
Mandriva MDVSA-2013:123 2013-04-10

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