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Secunia Advisory SA37575

FreeBSD freebsd-update Insecure Directory Permissions
Secunia Advisory SA37575
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Release Date 2009-12-03
Last Update 2009-12-23
   
Popularity 1,791 view
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Exposure of sensitive information
Where Local system
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Operating System
FreeBSD 6.x
FreeBSD 7.1
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2009-4358 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

A security issue has been reported in FreeBSD, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose potentially sensitive information.

The security issue is caused due to the freebsd-update utility not properly restricting read access to it's working directory (/var/db/freebsd-update by default), which can be exploited to e.g. access a backup of the master password file.


Solution
Update FreeBSD or apply patch.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
KAMADA Ken'ichi

Changelog
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Original Advisory
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-09:17.freebsd-update.asc

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