Package: comix
Version: 3.6.4-1
Severity: grave
Justification: user security hole
Tags: security

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/usr/bin/comix, line 10494:
        # =======================================================
        # Create the temporary directory used in this Comix session.
        # The dir is /tmp/comix/<num> where <num> is 1 or higher
        # depending on the number of Comix sessions opened.
        # =======================================================
        if not os.path.exists('/tmp/comix/'):
            os.makedirs('/tmp/comix/')
            os.chmod('/tmp/comix/', 0700)
        dir_number = 1
        while 1:
            if not os.path.exists('/tmp/comix/' + str(dir_number)):
                os.mkdir('/tmp/comix/' + str(dir_number))
                os.chmod('/tmp/comix/' + str(dir_number), 0700)
                self.base_dir = '/tmp/comix/' + str(dir_number) + '/'
                break
            dir_number += 1

Completely predictable filenames and chmodding after creation open this up
for symlink attack.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (400, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages comix depends on:
ii  gconf2                        2.20.1-2   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  python                        2.4.4-6    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-gtk2                   2.12.1-1   Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii  python-imaging                1.1.6-1    Python Imaging Library

comix recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information



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