Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-123 - A TOCTOU race condition was found in the way 'annotate-output' (used to execute a program annotating the output linewise with time and stream) tool of rpmdevtools before 8.3 performed management of its temporary files used for standard output and standard error output. A local attacker could use this flaw to conduct symbolic link attacks, possibly leading to their ability in an unauthorized way to alter files belonging to the user running the 'annotate-output' tool.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2013:123
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : rpmdevtools
Date : April 10, 2013
Affected: Business Server 1.0
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Problem Description:
Updated rpmdevtools package fixes security vulnerability:
A TOCTOU race condition was found in the way 'annotate-output' (used
to execute a program annotating the output linewise with time and
stream) tool of rpmdevtools before 8.3 performed management of its
temporary files used for standard output and standard error output. A
local attacker could use this flaw to conduct symbolic link attacks,
possibly leading to their ability in an unauthorized way to alter
files belonging to the user running the 'annotate-output' tool
(CVE-2012-3500).
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References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-3500
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0316
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Updated Packages:
Mandriva Business Server 1/X86_64:
71b23cbb10bd646ca4ba1f5e772f77a1 mbs1/x86_64/rpmdevtools-8.3-1.mbs1.noarch.rpm
fa512beb5677542a86236f63262a9b91 mbs1/SRPMS/rpmdevtools-8.3-1.mbs1.src.rpm
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