https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1135624
Bug ID: 1135624
Summary: perl-Clipboard: insecure temporary file usage
Product: Security Response
Component: vulnerability
Keywords: Security
Severity: low
Priority: low
Assignee: security-response-team(a)redhat.com
Reporter: vdanen(a)redhat.com
CC: iarnell(a)gmail.com, mkreder(a)gmail.com,
perl-devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
It was reported [1],[2] that the clipedit program as shipped with
perl-Clipboard uses temporary files insecurely (based on the PID of the running
program). Using symlink attacks, an attacker could cause the deletion of
arbitrary files that the user running clipedit has write access to.
[...]
7 my $tmpfilename = "/tmp/clipedit$$";
8 open my $tmpfile, ">$tmpfilename" or die "Failure to open
$tmpfilename:
$!";
9 print $tmpfile $orig;
10 close $tmpfile;
[...]
13 system($ed, $tmpfilename);
14
15 open $tmpfile, $tmpfilename or die "Failure to open $tmpfilename: $!";
16 my $edited = join '', <$tmpfile>;
[...]
49 unlink($tmpfilename) or die "Couldn't remove $tmpfilename: $!";
[1]
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/467
[2]
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=98435
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