Bug 2025912 (CVE-2021-44038)

Summary:	CVE-2021-44038 quagga: unsafe chown/chmod operations may lead to privileges escalation
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Marian Rehak <mrehak>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	balajig81, bennie.joubert, jaskalnik, mruprich, msekleta, olysonek-foss
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Bug Depends On:	2025913
Bug Blocks:	2025914

Description Marian Rehak 2021-11-23 11:30:38 UTC

Unsafe chown/chmod operations in the suggested spec file allow users (with control of the non-root-owned directory /etc/quagga) to escalate their privileges to root upon package installation or update.

External Reference:

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1191890

Comment 1 Marian Rehak 2021-11-23 11:30:55 UTC

Created quagga tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2025913]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-12-06 15:52:24 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-44038