CVE-2012-0787

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Nov 23, 2013
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Jan 19, 2012

Description

The clone_file function in transfer.c in Augeas before 1.0.0, when copy_if_rename_fails is set and EXDEV or EBUSY is returned by the rename function, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and obtain sensitive information via a bind mount on the (1) .augsave or (2) destination file when using the backup save option, or (3) .augnew file when using the newfile save option.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

55811third-party-advisory
http://augeas.net/news.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=772261
RHSA-2013:1537vendor-advisory
https://github.com/hercules-team/augeas/commit/b8de6a8c

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