National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-1999-1572
Original release date:07/16/1996
Last revised:09/10/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
Solution
Fixed in rev 1.3 of cpio/main.c.}
- Official Statement from Red Hat (03/14/2007)
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
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External Source: XF
Name: cpio-o-archive-insecure-permissions(19167)
External Source: TRUSTIX
Name: 2005-0003
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2005:080
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2005:073
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/1391
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-664
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2005:806
External Source: MANDRAKE
Name: MDKSA-2005:032
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-212.pdf
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 17532
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 17063
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 14357
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20050204 [USN-75-1] cpio vulnerability