PT-2012-5411 · Ibm+1 · Opencryptoki+1

Tomas Hoger · Published 2012-10-10 · Updated 2023-02-13 · CVE-2012-4455

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.2

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions openCryptoki version 2.4.1

Description The issue allows local users to create or set world-writable permissions on arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) LCK..opencryptoki or (2) LCK..opencryptoki stdll file in /var/lock/.

Recommendations For openCryptoki version 2.4.1, consider restricting access to the /var/lock/ directory to prevent symlink attacks on the LCK..opencryptoki and LCK..opencryptoki stdll files until a patch is available.

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-4455

Affected Products

Suse

Opencryptoki

References · 16

• http://secunia.com/advisories/50702 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4455 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-4455 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-4455 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-4455 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/09/2 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/27/2 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/07/2 · Note
• http://opencryptoki.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=opencryptoki/opencryptoki%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=5667edb52cd27b7e512f48f823b4bcc6b872ab15 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/55627 · Note
• http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29191022 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/07/6 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/25/5 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730636 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78943 · Note