SB2013120202 - Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Novell Opensuse

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.

1) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2012-0427)

CWE-ID: CWE-264 - Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

yast2-add-on-creator in SUSE inst-source-utils 2008.11.26 before 2008.11.26-0.9.1 and 2012.9.13 before 2012.9.13-0.8.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted (1) file name or (2) directory name. OpenSuse 11.4 is vulnerable per https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=604730

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=tGCXHQR48E4~
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=604730
• https://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0427.html