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Message-ID: <20080401113733.GC400@ngolde.de>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 13:37:33 +0200
From: Nico Golde <oss-security+ml@...lde.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE id request: comix
Hi Tomas,
* Tomas Hoger <thoger@...hat.com> [2008-04-01 13:21]:
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:40:37 +0200 Nico Golde
> <oss-security+ml@...lde.de> wrote:
> > comix is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution via crafted
> > file names.
> >
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462840
> >
> > I confirmed this using comix\"\;echo\ owned\>bla\;ls\ \"
> > as a simple reroducer.
>
> According to the feedback Fedora maintainer got from new upstream,
> comix 3.x is mostly dead and upstream is focused on re-written version
> 4. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430635#c1 for
> upstream reply.
Ok.
> That BZ also has some comments on the insecure temporary file usage
> reported to Debian BTS. And also notes that comix is likely an app
> where unfixed tarfile python module may bite back.
The insecure temporary file usage is not valid in my
opinion, see my comment to the bug report.
Kind regards
Nico
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