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CVE-2016-8605

Published: Jan 12, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
5.3
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
1.9 LOW
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V3
2.5 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Ubuntu
LOW
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8605
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/275.html

The mkdir procedure of GNU Guile temporarily changed the process umask to zero. During that time window, in a multithreaded application, other threads could end up creating files with insecure permissions. For example, mkdir without the optional mode argument would create directories as 0777. This is fixed in Guile 2.0.13. Prior versions are affected.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
FedoraFedoraproject23 (including)23 (including)
FedoraFedoraproject24 (including)24 (including)
FedoraFedoraproject25 (including)25 (including)
Guile-1.8Ubuntuesm-apps/xenial*
Guile-1.8Ubuntuprecise*
Guile-1.8Ubuntutrusty*
Guile-1.8Ubuntuupstream*
Guile-1.8Ubuntuxenial*
Guile-1.8Ubuntuyakkety*
Guile-2.0Ubuntuartful*
Guile-2.0Ubuntuesm-infra/xenial*
Guile-2.0Ubuntuprecise*
Guile-2.0Ubuntutrusty*
Guile-2.0Ubuntuupstream*
Guile-2.0Ubuntuxenial*
Guile-2.0Ubuntuyakkety*
Guile-2.0Ubuntuzesty*

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