Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in gnome-keyring - CVE-2012-3466
Published: October 23, 2012 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU43389
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-3466
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
GNOME gnome-keyring 3.4.0 through 3.4.1, when gpg-cache-method is set to "idle" or "timeout," does not properly limit the amount of time a passphrase is cached, which allows attackers to have an unspecified impact via unknown attack vectors.
Affected software
gnome-keyring
How to mitigate CVE-2012-3466
Install update from vendor's website.
External References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=683655
- http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-keyring/commit/?id=51606f299e5ee9d48096db0a5957efe26cbf7cc3
- http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-keyring/commit/?id=5dff623470b859e332dbe12afb0dc57b292832d2
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-09/msg00037.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:084
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/09/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/09/2
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=681081
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845426