Security Advisory

CVE-2016-8605

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-01-12 22:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 02:27:41
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The mkdir procedure of GNU Guile temporarily changed the process' umask to zero. During that time window, in a multithreaded application, other threads could end up creating files with insecure permissions. For example, mkdir without the optional mode argument would create directories as 0777. This is fixed in Guile 2.0.13. Prior versions are affected.