CVE-2016-8605

MEDIUM

GNU Guile <2.0.13 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93510
Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/12/1

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0010
EPSS Percentile 26.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-275
Status published
Products (4)
fedoraproject/fedora 23
fedoraproject/fedora 24
fedoraproject/fedora 25
gnu/guile < 2.0.12
Published Jan 12, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026