CVE-2013-4419 (GCVE-0-2013-4419)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-11-05 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 16:45
VLAI
Summary
The guestfish command in libguestfs 1.20.12, 1.22.7, and earlier, when using the --remote or --listen option, does not properly check the ownership of /tmp/.guestfish-$UID/ when creating a temporary socket file in this directory, which allows local users to write to the socket and execute arbitrary commands by creating /tmp/.guestfish-$UID/ in advance.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1536.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://secunia.com/advisories/55813 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2013-O… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1016960 x_refsource_MISC
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Date Public
2013-10-17 00:00
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