Bug 865499 (CVE-2012-4518)

Summary: CVE-2012-4518 ibacm: ibacm service files created with world writable permissions (DoS)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: dledford, fweimer, honli, jrusnack, kseifried
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: 866223 (view as bug list) Environment:
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Bug Depends On: 866223    
Bug Blocks: 855229, 865513, 887005    

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2012-10-11 15:29:37 UTC 
A security flaw was found in the way ibacm, an InfiniBand communication manager assistant, created files used by ib_acm service - they were created with world writable permissions. A local attacker could use this flaw to 1) overwrite content of ib_acm daemon log file or 2) overwrite content of ib_acm daemon ibacm.port file (ability to mask certain actions or cause ib_acm to run on non-default port).

Upstream patch:
[1] http://git.openfabrics.org/git?p=~shefty/ibacm.git;a=commit;h=d204fca2b6298d7799e918141ea8e11e7ad43cec

Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red Hat Product Security Team and Kurt Seifried of the Red Hat Security Response Team.
Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-10-11 15:35:05 UTC 
This issue affects the version of the ibacm package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-10-11 15:52:11 UTC 
CVE Request:
[2] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/11/6
Comment 3 Vincent Danen 2012-10-11 21:18:12 UTC 
This was assigned CVE-2012-4518.
Comment 5 Kurt Seifried 2012-12-16 04:33:07 UTC 
*** Bug 887004 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2013-02-21 09:48:56 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:0509 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0509.html
Comment 8 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-02-22 04:47:03 UTC 
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