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Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 20:28:08 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@...ian.org>, team@...urity.debian.org
Subject: Re: Inkscape reads .eps files from /tmp instead of
 the current directory

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On 12/29/2012 03:31 AM, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Going trough some bugreports in Debian I noticed [1], [2] I
> haven't found a CVE for "Inkscape reads .eps files from /tmp
> instead of the current directory".
> 
> If one has file foo.eps in current directory, and /tmp/foo.eps is 
> present
> 
> $ inkscape foo.eps
> 
> opens the copy in /tmp/foo.eps
> 
> Does this warrants a CVE? If so could you assign one?

Yes, please use CVE-2012-6076 for this issue. Relying on file names to
be not guessed so mystery content isn't opened up is not such a good
thing.

> [1]: http://bugs.debian.org/654341 [2]:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/911146
> 
> Regards, Salvatore




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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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