Insecure Temporary File in s390-tools - CVE-2021-25316

 

Insecure Temporary File in s390-tools - CVE-2021-25316

Published: March 15, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU51450
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2021-25316
CWE-ID: CWE-377
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to s390-tools creates temporary files with predictable file names during VM migration. A local user can create temporary files before the VM migration starts and perform a DoS attack.


Affected software

s390-tools
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem
osasnmpd-debuginfo
s390-tools
s390-tools-debuginfo
s390-tools-debugsource
s390-tools-hmcdrvfs
s390-tools-hmcdrvfs-debuginfo
s390-tools-zdsfs
s390-tools-zdsfs-debuginfo
osasnmpd

How to mitigate CVE-2021-25316

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

osasnmpd-debuginfo - addressed in versions 2.1.0-18.29.1, 2.11.0-9.20.1
s390-tools - addressed in versions 2.1.0-18.29.1, 2.11.0-9.20.1
s390-tools-debuginfo - addressed in versions 2.1.0-18.29.1, 2.11.0-9.20.1
s390-tools-debugsource - addressed in versions 2.1.0-18.29.1, 2.11.0-9.20.1
s390-tools-hmcdrvfs - addressed in versions 2.1.0-18.29.1, 2.11.0-9.20.1
s390-tools-hmcdrvfs-debuginfo - addressed in versions 2.1.0-18.29.1, 2.11.0-9.20.1
s390-tools-zdsfs - addressed in versions 2.1.0-18.29.1, 2.11.0-9.20.1
s390-tools-zdsfs-debuginfo - addressed in versions 2.1.0-18.29.1, 2.11.0-9.20.1
osasnmpd - addressed in versions 2.1.0-18.29.1, 2.11.0-9.20.1

External References

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