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p5-DBI -- insecure temporary file creation vulnerability

Description:

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña reports:

The DBI library, the Perl5 database interface, creates a temporary PID file in an insecure manner. This can be exploited by a malicious user to overwrite arbitrary files owned by the person executing the parts of the library.

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Affects:

portaudit: p5-DBI -- insecure temporary file creation vulnerability

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>