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<H1>Re: xsane: tempfile handled insecurely</H1>
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<STRONG>From:</STRONG> Oliver Rauch (<A HREF="mailto:oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE?Subject=Re:%20xsane:%20tempfile%20handled%20insecurely&In-Reply-To=&lt;38BA21DB.F4430A55@wolfsburg.de&gt;"><EM>oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE</EM></A>)<BR>
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Kevin Dalley wrote:
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<P><EM>&gt; This problem was reported by a Debian user with xsane-0.49.
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<EM>&gt;
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<EM>&gt; With this version of xsane it is possible to let a user overwrite his
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<EM>&gt; own files. Take for example user A with UID 1000 and user B who wants
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<EM>&gt; to overwrite a file of A. In this case B creates a symlink
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<EM>&gt; /tmp/preview-level-0-1000-mustek:_dev_sg1.ppm (1000 is the UID of user
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<EM>&gt; A, mustek:_dev_sg1.ppm is the specification of the scanner) to some
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<EM>&gt; file owned by user A, which B wants to be overwritten. If user A uses
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<EM>&gt; xsane in combination with the preview window the next time, it will
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<EM>&gt; overwrite the file, where the symlink points to, without asking
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<EM>&gt; before.
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<EM>&gt;
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<EM>&gt; IMHO xsane should check whether the preview file in /tmp is a real
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<EM>&gt; file and whether it is owned by the user who runs xsane. Otherwise
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<EM>&gt; this is a security hole.
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<P>Hi Kevin,
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<P>thanks for that info,
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<P>I will think about a good solution.
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<P>Bye
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Oliver
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