Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-021 - It was reported that perl-Proc-Daemon, when instructed to write a pid file, does that with a umask set to 0, so the pid file ends up with mode 666, allowing any user on the system to overwrite it.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2014:021
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : perl-Proc-Daemon
Date : January 24, 2014
Affected: Business Server 1.0, Enterprise Server 5.0
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Problem Description:
Updated perl-Proc-Daemon package fixes security vulnerability:
It was reported that perl-Proc-Daemon, when instructed to write
a pid file, does that with a umask set to 0, so the pid file ends
up with mode 666, allowing any user on the system to overwrite it
(CVE-2013-7135).
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References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-7135
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/125133.html
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Updated Packages:
Mandriva Enterprise Server 5:
eb4625acb3c72e6f7463ad9172843c27 mes5/i586/perl-Proc-Daemon-0.03-5.1mdvmes5.2.noarch.rpm
b367ed9786497cd5538474643de43834 mes5/SRPMS/perl-Proc-Daemon-0.03-5.1mdvmes5.2.src.rpm
Mandriva Enterprise Server 5/X86_64:
81fe1be38c5c3b5b9192e12faf377d43 mes5/x86_64/perl-Proc-Daemon-0.03-5.1mdvmes5.2.noarch.rpm
b367ed9786497cd5538474643de43834 mes5/SRPMS/perl-Proc-Daemon-0.03-5.1mdvmes5.2.src.rpm
Mandriva Business Server 1/X86_64:
3ce0594ce38d205794e581292add47ed mbs1/x86_64/perl-Proc-Daemon-0.140.0-2.1.mbs1.noarch.rpm
16b0dacea233f3735f14d8acaefd15b0 mbs1/SRPMS/perl-Proc-Daemon-0.140.0-2.1.mbs1.src.rpm
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