Bug 2186669 (CVE-2023-30630) - CVE-2023-30630 dmidecode: dump-bin to overwrite a local file
Summary: CVE-2023-30630 dmidecode: dump-bin to overwrite a local file
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-30630
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Depends On: 2186672 2186857 2186858 2186859 2186860 2186671
Blocks: 2186611
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Reported: 2023-04-14 05:02 UTC by Sandipan Roy
Modified: 2023-08-04 18:50 UTC (History)
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A vulnerability was found dmidecode, which allows -dump-bin to overwrite a local file. This issue may lead to the execution of dmidecode via Sudo.
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Description Sandipan Roy 2023-04-14 05:02:26 UTC 
Dmidecode before 3.5 allows -dump-bin to overwrite a local file. This has security relevance because, for example, execution of Dmidecode via Sudo is plausible.

https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/dmidecode-devel/2023-03/msg00003.html
https://github.com/adamreiser/dmiwrite
https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/dmidecode.git/commit/?id=6ca381c1247c81f74e1ca4e7706f70bdda72e6f2
https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/dmidecode.git/commit/?id=d8cfbc808f387e87091c25e7d5b8c2bb348bb206
Comment 1 Sandipan Roy 2023-04-14 05:24:52 UTC 
Created dmidecode tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-36 [bug 2186671]
Affects: fedora-37 [bug 2186672]
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