LOW
screen: Unsafe usage of temporary file
Published Apr 1, 2009
1.9
LOWCVSS 2.0
EPSS 0.23%
Description
Race condition in GNU screen 4.0.3 allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/screen-exchange temporary file.
Affected products
No data.
- 4.0.3
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
Red Hat statement
Red Hat does not consider this to be a security issue. The checks implemented by screen to protect against race condition attacks on /tmp/screen-exchange file provide sufficient protection for this rarely-used buffer exchange feature. For more details, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492104
Weaknesses (1)
References (11)
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=521123 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?25296 x_refsource_MISC
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/03/25/7 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34521 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-1215 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/screen/+bug/315993 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492104 x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue Tracking
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2009-1214 Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49887 vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1215
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1215
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=521123 | x_refsource_CONFIRM | |
| http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?25296 | x_refsource_MISC | |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/03/25/7 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34521 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID | |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-1215 | Vendor Advisory | |
| https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/screen/+bug/315993 | x_refsource_CONFIRM | |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492104 | x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue Tracking | |
| https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2009-1214 | Advisory | |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49887 | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF | |
| https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1215 | ||
| https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1215 |
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Apr 1, 2009
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Mar 31, 2009
Link CVE-2009-1215
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
ENISA EUVD
EUVD-2009-1214 Assigner mitre
Published Apr 1, 2009
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Exploited since n/a
Link EUVD-2009-1214