[Secure-testing-team] [Secure-testing-commits] r17167 - data/CVE

Nico Golde
Mon, 05 Sep 2011 09:08:03 -0000

Hi,
* Michael Gilbert <gilbert-guest at alioth.debian.org> [2011-09-04
20:52]:
> Author: gilbert-guest
> Date: 2011-09-04 18:50:53 +0000 (Sun, 04 Sep 2011)
> New Revision: 17167
>
> Modified:
>    data/CVE/list
> Log:
> TMPFILE environment variable exposure
>
> Modified: data/CVE/list
> ==================================================================> ---
data/CVE/list	2011-09-02 23:30:56 UTC (rev 17166)
> +++ data/CVE/list	2011-09-04 18:50:53 UTC (rev 17167)
> @@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
> +CVE-2011-XXXX [TMPFILE environment variable exposure]
> +	- debianutils <unfixed> (bug #640389)
> +	- coreutils <unfixed>

This imho shouldn''t be a bug tracked by us. As discussed via PM you
have far
worse problems if you can control environment variables. This needs a specific
case but not such a general bug for a "bug" class.

Cheers
Nico
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