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Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:20:13 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: David Holland <dholland-oss-security@...bsd.org>
Subject: Re: caml-light insecure temporary files
On 11/06/2011 01:09 PM, David Holland wrote:
> I apologize for sending this out on a weekend... but I found out it
> accidentally got broadcast to one of our mailing lists so there's
> nothing much to be gained from waiting. And besides, it's neither
> particularly critical nor of particularly broad interest.
>
> Anyway.
>
> I don't know if anyone besides us still ships caml-light; it is long
> dead upstream and obsoleted by ocaml. AFAICT neither Debian nor Red
> Hat does. But just in case: it uses mktemp() insecurely, and also does
> unsafe things in /tmp during make install.
>
> Patches follow; reference URL (including copies of the patches) is
> http://gnats.netbsd.org/45558.
>
> I'm not sure it's worth allocating a CVE number for this if it turns
> out nobody else ships it.
Please use CVE-2011-4119 for this issue.
--
-Kurt Seifried / Red Hat Security Response Team
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