Bug 1358612 (CVE-2016-6255) - CVE-2016-6255 libupnp: Unhandled POSTs can write to the filesystem by default
Summary: CVE-2016-6255 libupnp: Unhandled POSTs can write to the filesystem by default
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2016-6255
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1358613 1358614
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-07-21 07:19 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:53 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:56:23 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-07-21 07:19:43 UTC 
A vulnerability was found in libupnp. If there's no registered handler for a POST request, the default behaviour is to write it to the filesyste. This allows attacker to store arbitrary data on deployed devices.

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q3/102

Upstream fix:

https://github.com/mjg59/pupnp-code/commit/be0a01bdb83395d9f3a5ea09c1308a4f1a972cbd
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-07-21 07:20:25 UTC 
Created libupnp tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1358613]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1358614]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:56:23 UTC 
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.
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