PT-2018-4053 · Red Hat · Gofer

Kurt Seifried · Published 2018-05-04 · Updated 2018-06-07 · CVE-2012-5628

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

3.6

Low

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions gofer versions prior to 0.68

Description The issue allows local users to cause a denial of service by removing journal entries due to world-writable permissions for /var/lib/gofer/journal/watchdog.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.68, update to version 0.68 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting write access to the /var/lib/gofer/journal/watchdog directory to prevent unauthorized removal of journal entries.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-275

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-5628

Affected Products

Gofer

References · 2

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5628 · Security Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=884854 · Note