Lucene search

K
f5F5F5:K31130692
HistoryFeb 22, 2017 - 12:00 a.m.

K31130692 : GNU Guile vulnerabilities CVE-2016-8605 and CVE-2016-8606

2017-02-2200:00:00
my.f5.com
17

AI Score

7.5

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.011

Percentile

84.1%

Security Advisory 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.

The REPL server (–listen) in GNU Guile 2.0.12 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code via an HTTP inter-protocol attack.
Impact
There is no impact; F5 products are not affected by this vulnerability.