CVE-2012-0787

Severity

37%

Complexity

19%

Confidentiality

106%

The clone_file function in transfer.c in Augeas before 1.0.0, when copy_if_rename_fails is set and EXDEV or EBUSY is returned by the rename function, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and obtain sensitive information via a bind mount on the (1) .augsave or (2) destination file when using the backup save option, or (3) .augnew file when using the newfile save option.

The clone_file function in transfer.c in Augeas before 1.0.0, when copy_if_rename_fails is set and EXDEV or EBUSY is returned by the rename function, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and obtain sensitive information via a bind mount on the (1) .augsave or (2) destination file when using the backup save option, or (3) .augnew file when using the newfile save option.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 3.7. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 11 years ago

2013-11-23 18:55:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-04-22 17:48:00

Affected Software

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0

6.0

Augeas 0.0.1

0.0.1

Augeas 0.0.2

0.0.2

Augeas 0.0.3

0.0.3

Augeas 0.0.4

0.0.4

Augeas 0.0.5

0.0.5

Augeas 0.0.6

0.0.6

Augeas 0.0.7

0.0.7

Augeas 0.0.8

0.0.8

Augeas 0.1.0

0.1.0

Augeas 0.1.1

0.1.1

Augeas 0.2.0

0.2.0

Augeas 0.2.1

0.2.1

Augeas 0.2.2

0.2.2

Augeas 0.3.0

0.3.0

Augeas 0.3.1

0.3.1

Augeas 0.3.2

0.3.2

Augeas 0.3.3

0.3.3

Augeas 0.3.4

0.3.4

Augeas 0.3.5

0.3.5

Augeas 0.3.6

0.3.6

Augeas 0.4.0

0.4.0

Augeas 0.4.1

0.4.1

Augeas 0.4.2

0.4.2

Augeas 0.5.0

0.5.0

Augeas 0.5.1

0.5.1

Augeas 0.5.2

0.5.2

Augeas 0.5.3

0.5.3

Augeas 0.6.0

0.6.0

Augeas 0.7.0

0.7.0

Augeas 0.7.1

0.7.1

Augeas 0.7.2

0.7.2

Augeas 0.7.3

0.7.3

Augeas 0.7.4

0.7.4

Augeas 0.8.0

0.8.0

Augeas 0.8.1

0.8.1

Augeas 0.9.0

0.9.0

References

http://augeas.net/news.html

RHSA-2013:1537

Vendor Advisory

55811

Vendor Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=772261

https://github.com/hercules-team/augeas/commit/b8de6a8c

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