CVE-2012-4455 (GCVE-0-2012-4455)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-10-10 18:00
Modified
2024-08-06 20:35
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
openCryptoki 2.4.1 allows local users to create or set world-writable permissions on arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) LCK..opencryptoki or (2) LCK..opencryptoki_stdll file in /var/lock/.
References
secalert@redhat.com http://opencryptoki.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=opencryptoki/opencryptoki%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=5667edb52cd27b7e512f48f823b4bcc6b872ab15
secalert@redhat.com http://secunia.com/advisories/50702 Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.com http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29191022
secalert@redhat.com http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/07/2
secalert@redhat.com http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/07/6
secalert@redhat.com http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/09/2
secalert@redhat.com http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/20/6
secalert@redhat.com http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/25/5
secalert@redhat.com http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/27/2
secalert@redhat.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55627
secalert@redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730636
secalert@redhat.com https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78943
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://opencryptoki.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=opencryptoki/opencryptoki%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=5667edb52cd27b7e512f48f823b4bcc6b872ab15
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://secunia.com/advisories/50702 Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29191022
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/07/2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/07/6
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/09/2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/20/6
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/25/5
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/27/2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55627
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730636
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78943
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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