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Permission Issues

CVE-2012-5628

Severity Medium
Score 4.4/10

Summary

gofer before 0.68 uses world-writable permissions for /var/lib/gofer/journal/watchdog, which allows local users to cause a denial of service by removing journal entries.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • LOW
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE
  • LOW

CWE-275 - Permission Issues

Weaknesses in this category are related to improper assignment or handling of permissions.

References

Advisory Timeline

  • Published