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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 19:56:43 -0700
From: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: andrew@...l.org
Subject: Re: TMP flaw in rackspace jclouds?

I'm a Rackspace employee and I've reached out several co-workers who work
on JClouds for us.

Alex


On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com> wrote:

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> https://github.com/rackspace/jclouds/
>
> So CC'ing Andrew, he's a consistent contributor, I can't file an issue
> in Github (no link to it) so posting here and CC'ing him.
>
>
> https://github.com/rackspace/jclouds/blob/master/scriptbuilder/src/main/java/org/jclouds/scriptbuilder/domain/Statements.java
>
>   public static Statement extractTargzAndFlattenIntoDirectory(URI tgz,
> String dest) {
>       return new StatementList(ImmutableSet.<Statement> builder()
>             .add(exec("mkdir /tmp/$$"))
>             .add(extractTargzIntoDirectory(tgz, "/tmp/$$"))
>             .add(exec("mkdir -p " + dest))
>             .add(exec("mv /tmp/$$/*/* " + dest))
>             .add(exec("rm -rf /tmp/$$")).build());
>    }
>
>
> This is insecure, $$ == PID == predictable
>
> http://kurt.seifried.org/2012/03/14/creating-temporary-files-securely/
>
> use java.io.File.createTempFile() ? some interesting info at
> http://www.veracode.com/blog/2009/01/how-boring-flaws-become-interesting/
>
> for directories there is a helpful posting at
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/617414/create-a-temporary-directory-in-java
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> - --
> Kurt Seifried -- Red Hat -- Product Security -- Cloud
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