6.9 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
9.7%
ABRT (Automatic Bug Reporting Tool) is a tool to help users to detect
defects in applications and to create a bug report with all the information
needed by a maintainer to fix it. It uses a plug-in system to extend its
functionality. libreport provides an API for reporting different problems
in applications to different bug targets, such as Bugzilla, FTP, and Trac.
It was found that the
/usr/libexec/abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache tool did not
sufficiently sanitize its environment variables. This could lead to Python
modules being loaded and run from non-standard directories (such as /tmp/).
A local attacker could use this flaw to escalate their privileges to that
of the abrt user. (CVE-2012-5659)
A race condition was found in the way ABRT handled the directories used to
store information about crashes. A local attacker with the privileges of
the abrt user could use this flaw to perform a symbolic link attack,
possibly allowing them to escalate their privileges to root.
(CVE-2012-5660)
Red Hat would like to thank Martin Carpenter of Citco for reporting the
CVE-2012-5660 issue. CVE-2012-5659 was discovered by Miloslav Trmač of Red
Hat.
All users of abrt and libreport are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, which correct these issues.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
RedHat | 6 | ppc64 | libreport-python | < 2.0.9-5.el6_3.2 | libreport-python-2.0.9-5.el6_3.2.ppc64.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | ppc64 | abrt | < 2.0.8-6.el6_3.2 | abrt-2.0.8-6.el6_3.2.ppc64.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | s390x | abrt-debuginfo | < 2.0.8-6.el6_3.2 | abrt-debuginfo-2.0.8-6.el6_3.2.s390x.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | i686 | abrt-debuginfo | < 2.0.8-6.el6_3.2 | abrt-debuginfo-2.0.8-6.el6_3.2.i686.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | ppc64 | abrt-cli | < 2.0.8-6.el6_3.2 | abrt-cli-2.0.8-6.el6_3.2.ppc64.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | ppc64 | abrt-tui | < 2.0.8-6.el6_3.2 | abrt-tui-2.0.8-6.el6_3.2.ppc64.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | i686 | abrt-cli | < 2.0.8-6.el6_3.2 | abrt-cli-2.0.8-6.el6_3.2.i686.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | s390x | abrt-libs | < 2.0.8-6.el6_3.2 | abrt-libs-2.0.8-6.el6_3.2.s390x.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | ppc64 | abrt-addon-kerneloops | < 2.0.8-6.el6_3.2 | abrt-addon-kerneloops-2.0.8-6.el6_3.2.ppc64.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | x86_64 | libreport-plugin-logger | < 2.0.9-5.el6_3.2 | libreport-plugin-logger-2.0.9-5.el6_3.2.x86_64.rpm |