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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-123

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-123
Posted Apr 11, 2013
Authored by Mandriva | Site mandriva.com

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-123 - 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 before 8.3 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.

tags | advisory, local
systems | linux, mandriva
advisories | CVE-2012-3500
SHA-256 | 9a7e3e6df99c7f9d2fd28c283bcd2eb42325d5644827d34637c513155215881a

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-123

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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2013:123
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : rpmdevtools
Date : April 10, 2013
Affected: Business Server 1.0
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Problem Description:

Updated rpmdevtools package fixes security vulnerability:

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 before 8.3 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
(CVE-2012-3500).
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-3500
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0316
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Updated Packages:

Mandriva Business Server 1/X86_64:
71b23cbb10bd646ca4ba1f5e772f77a1 mbs1/x86_64/rpmdevtools-8.3-1.mbs1.noarch.rpm
fa512beb5677542a86236f63262a9b91 mbs1/SRPMS/rpmdevtools-8.3-1.mbs1.src.rpm
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To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

All packages are signed by Mandriva for security. You can obtain the
GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/advisories/

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

security_(at)_mandriva.com
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
<security*mandriva.com>
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