Security Advisory

CVE-2007-6249

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2007-12-15 01:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 16:02:36
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

etc-update in Portage before 2.1.3.11 on Gentoo Linux relies on the umask to set permissions for the merge file, often resulting in permissions weaker than those of the original files, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the merge file.