CVE-2012-4453

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

dracut.sh in dracut, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Fedora 16 and 17, and possibly other products, creates initramfs images with world-readable permissions, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information.

dracut.sh in dracut, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Fedora 16 and 17, and possibly other products, creates initramfs images with world-readable permissions, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information.

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 12 years ago

2012-10-09 23:55:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-04-22 17:48:00

Affected Software

Fedora 16

16

Fedora 17

17

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0

6.0

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/dracut/dracut.git;a=commit;h=e1b48995c26c4f06d1a71

Patch

RHSA-2013:1674

[oss-security] 20120927 dracut creates non-world readable initramfs images

[oss-security] 20120927 Re: dracut creates non-world readable initramfs images

[oss-security] 20120927 Re: dracut creates world readable initramfs images

55713

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=859448

dracut-initramfs-information-disclosure(79258)

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