oss-security - Re: CVE Request: incomplete fix for CVE-2010-1000 in KDE network

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Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:52:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: coley <coley@...re.org>
Subject: Re: CVE Request: incomplete fix for CVE-2010-1000 in
 KDE network

Please use CVE-2011-1586

Thanks.

-- 
    JB



----- Original Message -----
> A bug was filed in Ubuntu[1] for patches[2][3] that went into KDE
> Network for an incomplete fix for CVE-2010-1000. The commit message
> is:
> 
> "Further addresses CVE-2010-1000. The file name of Metalink File is
> checked a better way, making it work under more conditions."
> 
> While the previous patch fixed things like '../../tmp/gotcha', it did
> not fix a single leading '../'.
> 
> [1]https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdenetwork/+bug/757526
> [2]http://websvn.kde.org/?view=revision&revision=1227468 (4.4)
> [3]http://websvn.kde.org/?view=revision&revision=1227469 (4.5)
> 
> --
> Jamie Strandboge | http://www.canonical.com

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