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Re: CVE id request: comix
From: Nico Golde <oss-security+ml () ngolde de>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 13:37:33 +0200
Hi Tomas, * Tomas Hoger <thoger () redhat com> [2008-04-01 13:21]:
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:40:37 +0200 Nico Golde <oss-security+ml () ngolde de> wrote:comix is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution via crafted file names. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462840 I confirmed this using comix\"\;echo\ owned\>bla\;ls\ \" as a simple reroducer.According to the feedback Fedora maintainer got from new upstream, comix 3.x is mostly dead and upstream is focused on re-written version 4. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430635#c1 for upstream reply.
Ok.
That BZ also has some comments on the insecure temporary file usage reported to Debian BTS. And also notes that comix is likely an app where unfixed tarfile python module may bite back.
The insecure temporary file usage is not valid in my opinion, see my comment to the bug report. Kind regards Nico -- Nico Golde - http://www.ngolde.de - nion () jabber ccc de - GPG: 0x73647CFF For security reasons, all text in this mail is double-rot13 encrypted.
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