Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions Affecting gvfs package, versions [0,1.41.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.84% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GVFS-2368710
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 May 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 May 2019

CVE-2019-12449  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-755  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade gvfs to version 1.41.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions. An issue was discovered in GNOME gvfs 1.29.4 through 1.41.2. daemon/gvfsbackendadmin.c mishandles a file's user and group ownership during move (and copy with G_FILE_COPY_ALL_METADATA) operations from admin:// to file:// URIs, because root privileges are unavailable.

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CVSS Base Scores

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