oss-security - CVE request: policyd-weight insecure temporary file creation

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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:27:56 +0100
From: Robert Buchholz <rbu@...too.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE request: policyd-weight insecure temporary file creation

Hey all,

quoting DSA-1531-1:
Chris Howells discovered that policyd-weight, a policy daemon for the 
Postfix mail transport agent, created its socket in an insecure way, 
which may be exploited to overwrite or remove arbitary files from the 
local system.

References:
http://www.us.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1531
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214403
http://www.policyd-weight.org/

Please note that the 0.1.14.15 release and the patch introduced in the 
Debian package do not properly fix this vulnerability, it still 
contains a race condition. See the Gentoo bug for details.

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