Package: fai-client
Severity: critical
Tags: security
Tags: pending

When using fai softupdate, install_packages writes a list of all
packages to the file /var/tmp/package, which is located in a world
writeable directory. It also writes to /tmp/packages.list if
FAI_DEBSOURCESDIR is set. These problems only affect FAI versions from
3.3 to 3.3.4.

In case you use PACKAGES dselect-upgrade (I guess it's not used very
often) in package_config it writes to
$FAI_ROOT/tmp/dpkg-selections.tmp. Since FAI_ROOT is set to / if you
are calling fai softupdate, this is a security problem. This problem
also affects older versions.

I've already prepared a patch for this, which is available in the svn trunk.
-- 
regards Thomas



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