This bug was fixed in the package libimobiledevice - 1.1.4-1ubuntu6.2
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libimobiledevice (1.1.4-1ubuntu6.2) raring-security; urgency=low
* SECURITY UPDATE: insecure /tmp usage (LP: #1164263)
- debian/patches/CVE-2013-2142.patch: fall back to getpwuid_r instead
of using /tmp in src/userpref.c. Added string_concat() function in
src/Makefile.am, src/utils.c, src/utils.h.
- added new symbol to debian/libimobiledevice3.symbols.
- CVE-2013-2142
-- Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauri...@ubuntu.com> Wed, 14 Aug 2013 11:56:31
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1164263
Title:
user-specific and possible private files are written to a global
location
Status in “libimobiledevice” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
$ dpkg -l libimobiledevic* | grep ^ii
ii libimobiledevice3 1.1.4-1ubuntu6 amd64
Library for communicating with the iPhone and iPod Touch
$ lsb_release -d
Description: Ubuntu Raring Ringtail (development branch)
I just noticed the oddly-named "/tmp/root" on my machine.
$ tree -a /tmp/root
/tmp/root
└── .config
└── libimobiledevice
├── HostCertificate.pem
├── HostPrivateKey.pem
├── libimobiledevicerc
├── RootCertificate.pem
└── RootPrivateKey.pem
Given the names of some of the files and the fact they probably relate to my
phone, I suspect they should not live here, and certainly not be
world-readable, as they currently are:
$ sudo -u nobody sha256sum /tmp/root/.config/libimobiledevice/*
35df7500851f8b77e97da0d19b656233fa70e23933426bcce9c1860ad30d854c
/tmp/root/.config/libimobiledevice/HostCertificate.pem
4a50a2982d2479d7f4cee23c41c93ba0d31bc97732d4d0accaa7e24d643003f1
/tmp/root/.config/libimobiledevice/HostPrivateKey.pem
49bb734ce3a6ac0bf517738e8c13dfdd6281f66bd63e82355a1aa319fd94aa2c
/tmp/root/.config/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevicerc
0753ad5f801544c927af58fa3521784246fe510ee3d7870863db736481e5b278
/tmp/root/.config/libimobiledevice/RootCertificate.pem
aa1d53e80d7033e8ca27ea37b140a8bdb1ae6185371975360751377013131e03
/tmp/root/.config/libimobiledevice/RootPrivateKey.pem
There are some files in $HOME/.config/libimobiledevice with similar
names that date from October 10th 2012.
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