PT-2013-4023 · Google · Google Chrome

Christian Jaeger · Published 2013-08-21 · Updated 2017-09-19 · CVE-2013-2905

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Google Chrome versions prior to 29.0.1547.57

Description The issue concerns the SharedMemory::Create function in memory/shared memory posix.cc, which uses weak permissions under /dev/shm/. This allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via direct access to a POSIX shared-memory file.

Recommendations For versions prior to 29.0.1547.57, update to version 29.0.1547.57 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-2905

DSA-2741-1

MGASA-2013-0278

Affected Products

Google Chrome

References · 10

• http://debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2741 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2013-0278.html · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-2905 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2013-0278 · Vendor Advisory
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17583 · Note
• https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?revision=209814&view=revision · Note
• http://crbug.com/254159 · Note
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/09/stable-channel-update.html · Note
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/08/stable-channel-update.html · Note
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11049 · Note