PT-2012-6065 · Red Hat · Sanlock

Kurt Seifried · Published 2012-12-20 · Updated 2013-04-11 · CVE-2012-5638

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

3.6

Low

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions SANLock (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue concerns the setup logging function in log.h, which sets world-writable permissions for the /var/log/sanlock.log file. This allows local users to overwrite the file content or bypass intended disk-quota restrictions via standard filesystem write operations.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-5638

RHSA-2013:0691

Affected Products

Sanlock

References · 9

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2012-5638 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-5638 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5638 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-5638 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0691.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-5638 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-5638 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5638 · Security Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=887010 · Note