CVE-2012-5660

abrt-action-install-debuginfo in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) 2.0.9 and earlier allows local users to set world-writable permissions for arbitrary files and possibly gain privileges via a symlink attack on "the directories used to store information about crashes."

Score

CVSS 2.0 6.9 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2013-03-12

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-264, CWE-362

Affected products

• Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (Redhat)

References

• http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/libreport.git/commit/?id=3bbf961b1884dd32654dd39b360dd78ef294b10a
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0215.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=887866