CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-8605

Published: Jan 12, 2017 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
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
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Fedora Fedoraproject 23 (including) 23 (including)
Fedora Fedoraproject 24 (including) 24 (including)
Fedora Fedoraproject 25 (including) 25 (including)

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