Comment 2 for bug 12825

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:36:10 -0500
From: Joey Hess <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: FWD: insecure temporary file creation in kdelibs 3.3.2

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Package: kdelibs-data
Version: 4:3.3.2-1
Tags: security
Severity: grave

We're vulnerable.

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=46rom: Davide Madrisan <email address hidden>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:16:38 +0100
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: insecure temporary file creation in kdelibs 3.3.2
Organization: QiNet s.r.l.
User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2

The `dcopidlng' script in the KDE library package=20
(kdelibs-3.3.2/dcop/dcopidlng/dcopidlng)
creates temporary files in a unsecure manner.

This bug has been fixed in 32 minutes (!) by Stephan Kulow, the KDE team=20
leader. Here you can found the official patch:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D97608

Note: This bug has been find by `autospec', the work-in-progress tool used =
by=20
the QiLinux team to (semi)automatically create specfiles from tarballs and=
=20
update/check rpm packages. It's released under GPL and not QiLinux specific.
The latest release can be found at the URL:
ftp://ftp.qilinux.it/pub/QiLinux/devel/tools/autospec/

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Davide Madrisan
QiLinux Security Team Leader
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http://www.qilinux.it

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