CVE-2012-5630

libuser 0.56 and 0.57 has a TOCTOU (time-of-check time-of-use) race condition when copying and removing directory trees.

Score

CVSS 3.1 6.3 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2019-11-25

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-367

Affected products

• Fedora (Fedoraproject)
• Libuser (Libuser)
• Libuser (Libuser Project)
• Enterprise Linux (Redhat)

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/102068.html
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5630
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-5630
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5630
• https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59285