CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-7496

Unchecked Error Condition

Published: Jun 26, 2017 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.4 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

fedora-arm-installer up to and including 1.99.16 is vulnerable to local privilege escalation due to lack of checking the error condition of mount operation failure on unsafely created temporary directories.

Weakness

[PLANNED FOR DEPRECATION. SEE MAINTENANCE NOTES AND CONSIDER CWE-252, CWE-248, OR CWE-1069.] Ignoring exceptions and other error conditions may allow an attacker to induce unexpected behavior unnoticed.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Arm_installer Fedoraproject * 1.99.16 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References