Package: winkeydaemon
Version: 1.0.1-3
Justification: user security hole
Severity: grave
Tags: security
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This is probably not a hugely exploitable issue, but reporting
regardless:
winkeydaemon.pl:
if (-d "/tmp/.winkey") {
# ok, no action required
} else {
my $dir = "/tmp/.winkey";
`mkdir "$dir"`;
if ($debug) {print "Arranging mutex directory\n";}
}
...
...
`touch /tmp/.winkey/keyer_busy`;
...
`rm /tmp/.winkey/keyer_busy`;
...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages winkeydaemon depends on:
ii libdevice-serialport-perl 1.04-2+b1 emulation of Win32::SerialPort for
winkeydaemon recommends no packages.
winkeydaemon suggests no packages.
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