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rpmdevtools: symlink attack
| Package(s): | rpmdevtools |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2012-3500
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| 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. |
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