oss-security - Request for CVE Identifier: bzexe insecure temporary file

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Message-ID: <cc6b9c03-3e8a-47a3-bab4-698d7ca0037d@zmail15.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:48:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ramon de C Valle <rcvalle@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Request for CVE Identifier: bzexe insecure temporary file

This is a security issue reported by vladz in bzexe. This is a low impact security issue, since bzexe is rarely used and the race condition window is very narrow, but still exploitable.

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2011-October/083701.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=632862

Can a CVE Identifier be assigned to this issue?

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Ramon de C Valle / Red Hat Security Response Team

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