Information Exposure Affecting libreport-newt package, versions <0:2.1.11-31.0.1.el7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.59% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE7-LIBREPORTNEWT-2502340
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed7 Dec 2015

Introduced: 7 Dec 2015

CVE-2015-5302  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:7 libreport-newt to version 0:2.1.11-31.0.1.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2015-2505.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libreport-newt package and not the libreport-newt package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

libreport 2.0.7 before 2.6.3 only saves changes to the first file when editing a crash report, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors related to the (1) backtrace, (2) cmdline, (3) environ, (4) open_fds, (5) maps, (6) smaps, (7) hostname, (8) remote, (9) ks.cfg, or (10) anaconda-tb file attachment included in a Red Hat Bugzilla bug report.

CVSS Base Scores

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