31 Jul 2014 Stevey   » (Master)

luonnos viesti - 31 heinäkuu 2014

Yesterday I spent a while looking at the Debian code search site, an enormously useful service allowing you to search the code contained in the Debian archives.

The end result was three trivial bug reports:

#756565 - lives

Insecure usage of temporary files.

A CVE-identifier should be requested.

#756566 - libxml-dt-perl

Insecure usage of temporary files.

A CVE-identifier has been requested by Salvatore Bonaccorso, and will be added to my security log once allocated.

756600 - xcfa

Insecure usage of temporary files.

A CVE-identifier should be requested.

Finding these bugs was a simple matter of using the code-search to look for patterns like "system.*>.*%2Ftmp".

Perhaps tomorrow somebody else would like to have a go at looking for backtick-related operations ("`"), or the usage of popen.

Tomorrow I will personally be swimming in a loch, which is more fun than wading in code..

Syndicated 2014-07-31 12:54:16 from Steve Kemp's Blog

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