Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource Affecting apr package, versions [0.9.0,1.7.5)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-APR-7833825
- published27 Aug 2024
- disclosed26 Aug 2024
- creditThomas Stangner
Introduced: 26 Aug 2024
CVE-2023-49582 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade apr to version 1.7.5 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource in the form of shared named memory segments having 0644 permissions by default, in shm.c. This is only exploitable on Unix platforms
Workaround
This vulnerability can be avoided by building with APR_USE_SHMEM_SHMGET=1 in apr.h.