Re: CVE Request (minor) -- gnash -- Unsafe management of HTTP cookies

[Kurt Seifried <kurt () seifried org>]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov () redhat com> wrote:
> Hello Kurt, Steve, vendors,
>
>  a security flaw was found in the way Shockwave Flash plug-in of the
> gnash, a GNU flash movie player, performed management of HTTP cookies
> (they were stored under /tmp directory with predictable name and world-
> readable permissions). A local attacker could use this flaw to obtain
> sensitive information.
>
> References:
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=649384
> [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755518
>
> Could you allocate a CVE id for this?
>
> Thank you && Regards, Jan.
> --
> Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team

Please use CVE-2011-4328 for this issue.


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Kurt Seifried
kurt () seifried org