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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:21:44 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Matthias Weckbecker <mweckbecker@...e.de>
Subject: Re: CVE request: latex2man / texlive

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On 04/19/2012 07:20 AM, Matthias Weckbecker wrote:
> Hi Kurt, Steve, vendors,
> 
> recently there has been an issue reported by Helmut Grohne in
> latex2man. It seems to be different from what we had the other day
> (CVE-2012-2093 [1]). Bug report of the new issue is available at:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668779
> 
> Does this qualify for a CVE?

Sigh. And this is why people using bash should use mktemp(), all other
languages you probably want to use mkstemp().

Please use CVE-2012-2120 for this issue.

> Thanks, Matthias
> 
> [1] http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q2/56


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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
PGP: 0x5E267993 A90B F995 7350 148F 66BF 7554 160D 4553 5E26 7993

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