CVE-2019-12449

An issue was discovered in GNOME gvfs 1.29.4 through 1.41.2. daemon/gvfsbackendadmin.c mishandles a file's user and group ownership during move (and copy with G_FILE_COPY_ALL_METADATA) operations from admin:// to file:// URIs, because root privileges are unavailable.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.7 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2019-05-29

Last modified

2024-08-04

Weaknesses

CWE-755

Affected products

• Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
• Fedora (Fedoraproject)
• Gvfs (Gnome)
• Leap (Opensuse)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00008.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00009.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/07/09/3
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/commit/409619412e11be146a31b9a99ed965925f1aabb8
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FP6BFQUPQRVRRFIYHFWWB6…
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M2DQVOL5H5BVLXYCEB763D…
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4053-1/