oss-security - Re: CVE Request (gpicview)

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Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:55:52 +0200
From: Robert Buchholz <rbu@...too.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE Request (gpicview)

On Tuesday 26 August 2008, Steven M. Christey wrote:
> > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2019481&gr
> >oup_id=180858&atid=894869
> >
> > Possible symlink attack via the temporary created "/tmp/rot.jpg"
> > file used for image rotation.
>
> Use CVE-2008-3791

This issue (and CVE-2008-3904) have been resolved by r845, and released 
as 0.1.10:
http://lxde.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lxde?view=rev&sortby=date&revision=845

Interestingly, upstream also fixed a bug in the open_url() function 
where invoking the browser would allow for code execution via shell 
metacharacters in the URL. However, from what I see the function is 
only called with URLs in the "about" box. Unfortunately, upstream calls 
this non-issue CVE-2008-3904. Patch here:
http://lxde.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lxde?view=rev&sortby=date&revision=847

Regards,
Robert

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