Bug#756566: CVE Request: XML-DT: Insecure use of temporary files

[Alberto Simoes]

Hello all,

This was fixed in XML-DT-0.66 fixing that issue.
It was just released to CPAN.

Thank you
alberto

On 15/08/14, 21:10, cve-assign at mitre.org wrote:
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>> mkdtskel and mkxmltype using insecurely temporary files using the pid
>> of the process in the temporary file name.
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>> /tmp/_xml_$$
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>> https://bugs.debian.org/756566
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> Use CVE-2014-5260.
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>> fixed in XML-DT 0.65 upstream, see
>>
>> https://metacpan.org/diff/file?target=AMBS/XML-DT-0.65/&source=AMBS/XML-DT-0.63/
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> This actually doesn't seem to be fixed. However, we don't immediately
> see a security problem in version 0.65 (only a usability problem), so
> a second CVE ID isn't assigned at this point.
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> Specifically, the latest version has:
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>    https://metacpan.org/source/AMBS/XML-DT-0.65/mkxmltype
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>    system("head -$lines $fname | xmllint --recover - > $fname");
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> which looks unintended (maybe $fname will always end up as a
> zero-length file?).
>
> This apparently also affects libxml-dt-perl (0.65-1) from the
> https://packages.debian.org/sid/libxml-dt-perl page.
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