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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 22:43:06 +0200
From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@...ian.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: security@...ntu.com, security@...ian.org, cve-assign@...re.org
Subject: [notification] txt2man unsafe use of tempoarary files

Hi

This is a notification that CVE-2013-1444 was assigned to the
following issue[1] (affecting Debian and derivatives syncing from
Debian the txt2man package):

txt2man uses tempoary files in /tmp/ (specific /tmp/2222), Debian
applied a patch including:

echo $post > /tmp/2222

in txt2man. This reported by Patrick J Cherry.

References:

 [1] http://bugs.debian.org/724614

Regards,
Salvatore

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