Fedora 7 : id3lib-3.8.3-17.fc7 (2007-1774)

This security update fixes a minor tempfile creation security issue CVE-2007-4460 by using mkstemp bugzilla 253553 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format i...

lmail local root exploit

lmail is vulnerable to an insecure mktemp race which allows a user to overwrite or create a files. Offending code lmail.c: define MAILTMPFILE "/tmp/rmXXXXXX" ... static char tempfname = MAILTMPFILE; ... if fseekstdin, 0L, 0 != 0 mailfile = fopenmktemptempfname, "w+"; ... Patch: s/mktemp/mkstemp/g...

[RHSA-2000:114-03] ghostscript uses mktemp instead of mkstemp, and uses an improper LD_RUN_PATH

--------------------------------------------------------------------- Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory Synopsis: ghostscript uses mktemp instead of mkstemp, and uses an improper LDRUNPATH Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:114-03 Issue date: 2000-11-22 Updated on: 2000-11-22 Product: Red Hat Linux Keywords:...