SB2014011301 - Path traversal in Fedoraproject Fedora

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.

1) Path traversal (CVE-ID: CVE-2010-0746)

CWE-ID: CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

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

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform directory traversal attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to input validation error when processing directory traversal sequences in DeviceKit-disks in DeviceKit, as used in Fedora 11 and 12 and possibly other operating systems,. A remote authenticated attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and local users to gain privileges via . (dot dot) sequences in the label for a pluggable storage device.

Remediation

Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.

References

• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2010/q2/5
• http://stealth.openwall.net/xSports/devshit.pl
• http://xorl.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/cve-2010-0746-devicekit-local-privilege-escalation/
• https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23235
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523178