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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-8605: guile multiple issues

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-8605: guile multiple issues

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
01/12/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/20/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

The mkdir procedure of GNU Guile temporarily changed the process' umask to zero. During that time window, in a multithreaded application, other threads could end up creating files with insecure permissions. For example, mkdir without the optional mode argument would create directories as 0777. This is fixed in Guile 2.0.13. Prior versions are affected.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-guile

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