Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libguestfs  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1904-LIBGUESTFS-529006
  • published5 Nov 2013
  • disclosed5 Nov 2013

Introduced: 5 Nov 2013

CVE-2013-4419  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.04.

NVD Description

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

The guestfish command in libguestfs 1.20.12, 1.22.7, and earlier, when using the --remote or --listen option, does not properly check the ownership of /tmp/.guestfish-$UID/ when creating a temporary socket file in this directory, which allows local users to write to the socket and execute arbitrary commands by creating /tmp/.guestfish-$UID/ in advance.