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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-GUILE20-356046
  • published12 Jan 2017
  • disclosed12 Jan 2017
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Introduced: 12 Jan 2017

CVE-2016-8605  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-275  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream guile-2.0 package and not the guile-2.0 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.

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