Symlink Attack Affecting alsa-project/alsa-lib package, versions [1.0.19,1.0.20)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.18% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ALSAPROJECTALSALIB-2365350
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Nov 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Nov 2019

CVE-2009-0035  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade alsa-project/alsa-lib to version 1.0.20 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack alsa-utils 1.0.19 and later versions allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack via the /usr/bin/alsa-info and /usr/bin/alsa-info.sh scripts.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1