Bug 693647 – CVE-2010-4512 cobbler: Insecure umask by creating /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/* files after cobbler sync

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Bug 693647 - (CVE-2010-4512) CVE-2010-4512 cobbler: Insecure umask by creating /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/* files after cobbler sync

Summary:	CVE-2010-4512 cobbler: Insecure umask by creating /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/* fi...

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2010-4512

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Reported:	2011-04-05 04:05 EDT by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified:	2014-11-10 04:55 EST (History)
CC List:	6 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2014-11-07 03:17:32 EST
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-04-05 04:05:04 EDT

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2010-4512 to
the following vulnerability:

Cobbler before 2.0.4 uses an incorrect umask value, which allows
local users to have an unspecified impact by leveraging world
writable permissions for files and directories.

References:
[1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-4512
[2] http://people.fedoraproject.org/~shenson/cobbler/cobbler-2.0.8.tar.gz
[3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554567
[4] http://secunia.com/advisories/42602

Comment 1 Kurt Seifried 2014-11-07 03:18:39 EST

Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of cobbler as shipped with Red Hat Satellite version 5.

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