CVE-2006-5297

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2006-10-04
Bugzilla:
211085: CVE-2006-5297 Multiple mutt tempfile race conditions

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Race condition in the safe_open function in the Mutt mail client 1.5.12 and earlier, when creating temporary files in an NFS filesystem, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files due to limitations of the use of the O_EXCL flag on NFS filesystems.

Find out more about CVE-2006-5297 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211085

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

The risks associated with fixing this bug are greater than the low severity security risk. We therefore currently have no plans to fix this flaw in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 which is in maintenance mode.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (mutt) RHSA-2007:0386 2007-06-04
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (mutt) RHSA-2007:0386 2007-06-04
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (mutt) RHSA-2007:0386 2007-06-04

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