vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-4518-1 (CVE-2020-13696): xawtv vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jun 8, 2020
Added
Sep 18, 2020
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

An issue was discovered in LinuxTV xawtv before 3.107. The function dev_open() in v4l-conf.c does not perform sufficient checks to prevent an unprivileged caller of the program from opening unintended filesystem paths. This allows a local attacker with access to the v4l-conf setuid-root program to test for the existence of arbitrary files and to trigger an open on arbitrary files with mode O_RDWR. To achieve this, relative path components need to be added to the device path, as demonstrated by a v4l-conf -c /dev/../root/.bash_history command.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-alevtdubuntu-upgrade-fbtvubuntu-upgrade-piaubuntu-upgrade-radioubuntu-upgrade-scantvubuntu-upgrade-streamerubuntu-upgrade-ttvubuntu-upgrade-v4l-confubuntu-upgrade-webcamubuntu-upgrade-xawtvubuntu-upgrade-xawtv-plugin-qtubuntu-upgrade-xawtv-pluginsubuntu-upgrade-xawtv-tools
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