PT-2013-1806 · Google+1 · Android-Tools+1

Jan Lieskovsky · Published 2013-02-14 · Updated 2013-02-19 · CVE-2012-5564

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

3.3

Low

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions android-tools version 4.1.1

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/adb.log.

Recommendations For android-tools version 4.1.1, consider restricting access to the /tmp/adb.log file to prevent symlink attacks until a patch is available.

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-5564

Affected Products

Debian

Android-Tools

References · 18

• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-5564 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-5564 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-February/098527.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-5564 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/android-platform-system-core · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5564 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5564 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2012-5564 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5564 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-5564 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-February/098532.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-February/098529.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/23/8 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/23/1 · Note
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688280 · Note