Vulnerability CVE-2007-6249
Published: 2007-12-14   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
etc-update in Portage before 2.1.3.11 on Gentoo Linux relies on the umask to set permissions for the merge file, often resulting in permissions weaker than those of the original files, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the merge file.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Gentoo -> Portage 

 References:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193589
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/portage?rev=7799&view=rev
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200712-11.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26864
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019097
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39035
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