Bug 1616458 (CVE-1999-1572) - CVE-1999-1572 security flaw
Summary: CVE-1999-1572 security flaw
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-1999-1572
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2018-08-16 00:53 UTC by Stephen Herr
Modified: 2021-11-08 15:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-08-16 00:53:29 UTC
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 00:53:23 UTC 
Flaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see the MITRE CVE description.
Comment 1 Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 16:00:38 UTC 
MITRE description:

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.
Comment 2 Stephen Herr 2019-06-13 19:04:30 UTC 
Statement:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.


Acknowledgments:

Red Hat would like to thank Mike O'Connor for bringing this issue to our attention.
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