Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package openvswitch  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1704-OPENVSWITCH-644312
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed7 Aug 2012

Introduced: 7 Aug 2012

CVE-2012-3449  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:17.04.

NVD Description

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

Open vSwitch 1.4.2 uses world writable permissions for (1) /var/lib/openvswitch/pki/controllerca/incoming/ and (2) /var/lib/openvswitch/pki/switchca/incoming/, which allows local users to delete and overwrite arbitrary files.