CVE-2010-2059

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

lib/fsm.c in RPM 4.8.0 and unspecified 4.7.x and 4.6.x versions, and RPM before 4.4.3, does not properly reset the metadata of an executable file during replacement of the file in an RPM package upgrade, which might allow local users to gain privileges by creating a hard link to a vulnerable (1) setuid or (2) setgid file.

lib/fsm.c in RPM 4.8.0 and unspecified 4.7.x and 4.6.x versions, and RPM before 4.4.3, does not properly reset the metadata of an executable file during replacement of the file in an RPM package upgrade, which might allow local users to gain privileges by creating a hard link to a vulnerable (1) setuid or (2) setgid file.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

RPM Package Manager

First reported 14 years ago

2010-06-08 18:30:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-10 19:58:00

Affected Software

RPM RPM Package Manager 1.2

1.2

RPM RPM Package Manager 1.3

1.3

RPM RPM Package Manager 1.3.1

1.3.1

RPM RPM Package Manager 1.4

1.4

RPM RPM Package Manager 1.4.2

1.4.2

RPM RPM Package Manager 1.4.2/a

1.4.2\/a

RPM RPM Package Manager 1.4.3

1.4.3

RPM RPM Package Manager 1.4.4

1.4.4

RPM RPM Package Manager 1.4.5

1.4.5

RPM RPM Package Manager 1.4.6

1.4.6

RPM RPM Package Manager 1.4.7

1.4.7

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.0

2.0

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.0.1

2.0.1

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.0.2

2.0.2

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.0.3

2.0.3

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.0.4

2.0.4

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.0.5

2.0.5

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.0.6

2.0.6

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.0.7

2.0.7

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.0.8

2.0.8

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.0.9

2.0.9

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.0.10

2.0.10

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.0.11

2.0.11

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.1

2.1

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.1.1

2.1.1

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.1.2

2.1.2

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.2

2.2

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.2.1

2.2.1

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.2.2

2.2.2

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.2.3

2.2.3

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.3.10

2.2.3.10

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.3.11

2.2.3.11

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.2.4

2.2.4

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.2.5

2.2.5

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.2.6

2.2.6

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.2.7

2.2.7

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.2.8

2.2.8

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.2.9

2.2.9

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.2.10

2.2.10

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.2.11

2.2.11

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.3

2.3

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.3.1

2.3.1

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.3.2

2.3.2

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.3.3

2.3.3

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.3.4

2.3.4

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.3.5

2.3.5

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.3.6

2.3.6

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.3.7

2.3.7

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.3.9

2.3.8

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.3.9

2.3.9

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.4.1

2.4.1

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.4.2

2.4.2

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.4.3

2.4.3

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.4.4

2.4.4

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.4.5

2.4.5

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.4.6

2.4.6

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.4.8

2.4.8

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.4.9

2.4.9

RPM RPM Package Manager 2..11

2.4.11

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.4.12

2.4.12

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.5

2.5

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.5.1

2.5.1

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.5.2

2.5.2

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.5.3

2.5.3

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.5.4

2.5.4

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.5.5

2.5.5

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.5.6

2.5.6

RPM RPM Package Manager 2.4.7

2.6.7

RPM RPM Package Manager 3.0

3.0

RPM RPM Package Manager 3.0.1

3.0.1

RPM RPM Package Manager 3.0.2

3.0.2

RPM RPM Package Manager 3.0.3

3.0.3

RPM RPM Package Manager 3.0.4

3.0.4

RPM RPM Package Manager 3.0.5

3.0.5

RPM RPM Package Manager 3.0.6

3.0.6

RPM RPM Package Manager 4.0

4.0.

RPM RPM Package Manager 4.0.1

4.0.1

RPM RPM Package Manager 4.0.2

4.0.2

RPM RPM Package Manager 4.0.3

4.0.3

RPM RPM Package Manager 4.0.4

4.0.4

RPM RPM Package Manager 4.1

4.1

RPM RPM Package Manager 4.3

4.3.3

RPM Package Manager 4.4.2

4.4.2

RPM RPM Package Manager 4.4.2.1

4.4.2.1

RPM RPM Package Manager 4.4.2.2

4.4.2.2

RPM RPM Package Manager 4.6.0

4.6.0

RPM RPM Package Manager 4.6.1

4.6.1

RPM RPM Package Manager 4.7.0

4.7.0

RPM RPM Package Manager 4.7.1

4.7.1

RPM RPM Package Manager 4.7.2

4.7.2

RPM RPM Package Manager 4.8.0

4.8.0

References

http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/mirrors/rpm/files/rpm/rpm-4.4/rpm-4.4.3.tar.gz

Patch

SUSE-SR:2010:014

SUSE-SR:2010:017

[security-announce] 20110307 VMSA-2011-0004 VMware ESX/ESXi SLPD denial of service vulnerability and ESX third party updates for Service Console packages bind, pam, and rpm

[oss-security] 20100603 Re: CVE Request -- rpm -- Fails to remove the SUID/SGID bits on package upgrade (RH BZ#598775)

http://rpm.org/gitweb?p=rpm.git;a=commit;h=ca2d6b2b484f1501eafdde02e1688409340d2383

40028

Vendor Advisory

MDVSA-2010:180

[oss-security] 20100602 CVE Request -- rpm -- Fails to remove the SUID/SGID bits on package upgrade (RH BZ#598775)

[oss-security] 20100602 Re: CVE Request -- rpm -- Fails to remove the SUID/SGID bits on package upgrade (RH BZ#598775)

[oss-security] 20100603 Re: CVE Request -- rpm -- Fails to remove the SUID/SGID bits on package upgrade (RH BZ#598775)

[oss-security] 20100604 Re: CVE Request -- rpm -- Fails to remove the SUID/SGID bits on package upgrade (RH BZ#598775)

65143

RHSA-2010:0679

20110308 VMSA-2011-0004 VMware ESX/ESXi SLPD denial of service vulnerability and ESX third party updates for Service Console packages bind, pam, and rpm.

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0004.html

ADV-2011-0606

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=125517

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=598775

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