CVE-2008-5138 pam_mount insecure tempfile creation - to update or not?

Till Maas opensource at till.name
Fri Nov 21 21:51:32 UTC 2008


Hiyas,

there was a bug report opened because of an possible vulnerability in 
pam_mount, which I would not really consider one. Because it cannot be 
triggered under normal circumstances because the script would fail before an 
insecure tempfile is used. More details are available here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472109#c2

The question is now, whether I should update the package without the affected 
script to make everyone aware of this or just keep it as is.

Regards,
Till
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