Access Restriction Bypass Affecting glib package, versions [,2.0]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GLIB-2382564
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed22 Sept 2009
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Sep 2009

CVE-2009-3289  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for glib.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. The g_file_copy function in glib 2.0 sets the permissions of a target file to the permissions of a symbolic link (777), which allows user-assisted local users to modify files of other users, as demonstrated by using Nautilus to modify the permissions of the user home directory.

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