PT-2016-6671 · Opensuse+1 · Yast-Storage+3

Shundhammer · Published 2016-08-30 · Updated 2018-10-30 · CVE-2016-5746

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.1

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libstorage, libstorage-ng, and yast-storage (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows local users to potentially obtain sensitive information by reading a temporary file on disk. This is because passphrases for encrypted storage devices are improperly stored in this file. The file in question is demonstrated by the path /tmp/libstorage-XXXXXX/pwdf.

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

Exploit

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-5746

SUSE-SU-2016:2189-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2353-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2355-1

SUSE-SU-2016_2189-1

SUSE-SU-2016_2353-1

SUSE-SU-2016_2355-1

Affected Products

Suse

Libstorage

Libstorage-Ng

Yast-Storage

References · 23

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=986971 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-5746 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00032.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2355-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2189-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5746 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2353-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/openSUSE/libstorage-ng/pull/123 · Note
• https://github.com/openSUSE/libstorage/pull/163 · Note
• https://github.com/openSUSE/libstorage/pull/162 · Note
• https://github.com/yast/yast-storage/pull/223 · Note
• https://github.com/yast/yast-storage/pull/227 · Note
• https://github.com/yast/yast-storage/pull/224 · Note
• https://github.com/yast/yast-storage/pull/226 · Note
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/937942 · Note