PT-2013-2840 · Debian+1 · Debian+1

Hayawardh Vijayakumar · Published 2013-03-06 · Updated 2013-03-06 · CVE-2013-1048

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.6

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions apache2 versions 2.2.16-6+squeeze10 and earlier, versions 2.2.22-12 and earlier

Description The issue is related to the improper creation of the /var/lock/apache2 lock directory by the apache2ctl script in the apache2 package for the Apache HTTP Server on Debian GNU/Linux. This allows local users to gain privileges via an unspecified symlink attack.

Recommendations For versions 2.2.16-6+squeeze10 and earlier, update to version 2.2.16-6+squeeze11 or later. For versions 2.2.22-12 and earlier, update to version 2.2.22-13 or later.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-1048

DSA-2637-1

Affected Products

Debian

Apache 2

References · 6

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1048 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2637 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-1048 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1048 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-1048 · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/a/apache2/apache2_2.2.16-6+squeeze11.diff.gz · Patch