Title: Multiple Vendor man(1) 'makewhatis' Insecure /tmp Files Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
Due to insecure handling of /tmp files by the 'makewhatis' portion of the man(1) command it is possible for a user to manipulate files to which they should not have access or to possibly to elevate their privileges. This is possible because 'makewhatis' creates non-randomly named files in the /tmp directory which are subject to symlink attacks. man 1.5e and higher is vulnerable.
Affected Products:
- Caldera OpenLinux 2.3.0
- Caldera OpenLinux 2.4.0
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 6.0.0
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 6.1.0
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 7.0.0
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 7.1.0
- RedHat Linux 5.2.0 alpha
- RedHat Linux 5.2.0 i386
- RedHat Linux 5.2.0 sparc
- RedHat Linux 6.0.0
- RedHat Linux 6.0.0 alpha
- RedHat Linux 6.0.0 sparc
- RedHat Linux 6.1.0 alpha
- RedHat Linux 6.1.0 i386
- RedHat Linux 6.1.0 sparc
- RedHat Linux 6.2.0
- RedHat Linux 6.2.0 alpha
- RedHat Linux 6.2.0 i386
- RedHat Linux 6.2.0 sparc
- RedHat man-1.5f-1.i386.rpm 0.0.0
- RedHat man-1.5h1-1.i386.rpm 0.0.0
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