CVE-1999-1572

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

Fixed in rev 1.3 of cpio/main.c.

cpio on FreeBSD 2.1.0, Debian GNU/Linux 3.0, and possibly other operating systems, uses a 0 umask when creating files using the -O (archive) or -F options, which creates the files with mode 0666 and allows local users to read or overwrite those files.

Fixed in rev 1.3 of cpio/main.c.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Overview

First reported 28 years ago

1996-07-16 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-19 01:29:00

Affected Software

Debian Debian Linux 3.0

3.0

FreeBSD 2.1.0

2.1.0

MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 9.2

9.2

MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 10.0

10.0

MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 10.1

10.1

MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux CS2.1

cs2.1

MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux CS3.0

cs3.0

Red Hat Desktop 4.0

4.0

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