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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
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