PT-2017-17771 · Fedora · Fedora-Arm-Installer

Published 2017-06-26 · Updated 2019-10-09 · CVE-2017-7496

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.0

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions fedora-arm-installer versions up to and including 1.99.16

Description The issue is related to local privilege escalation due to the lack of checking the error condition of mount operation failure on unsafely created temporary directories.

Recommendations For versions up to and including 1.99.16, update to a version that includes a fix for this issue to prevent local privilege escalation.

Fix

Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-391

CWE-755

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-7496

Affected Products

Fedora-Arm-Installer

References · 3

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-7496 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7496 · Security Note
• https://pagure.io/arm-image-installer/pull-request/10 · Vendor Advisory