CVE-2020-12050

Name	CVE-2020-12050
Description	SQLiteODBC 0.9996, as packaged for certain Linux distributions as 0.9996-4, has a race condition leading to root privilege escalation because any user can replace a /tmp/sqliteodbc$$ file with new contents that cause loading of an arbitrary library.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
sqliteodbc (PTS)	buster	0.9996-1	vulnerable
	bullseye	0.9998-2	vulnerable
	bookworm, sid	0.9998-3	vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
sqliteodbc	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)	unimportant

Notes

The issue is located in the *.spec files used for rpm packaging using insecurely
/tmp/sqliteodbc$$. Debian packaging maintainer scripts do not suffer from same
issue.