Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Opensuse - CVE-2012-0427

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Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Opensuse - CVE-2012-0427

Published: December 2, 2013 / Updated: August 10, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU42303
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: 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
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-0427
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: SUSE
Affected software:
Opensuse

Detailed vulnerability description

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


How to mitigate CVE-2012-0427

Install update from vendor's website.

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