National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-3500
Original release date:10/01/2012
Last revised:10/01/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
scripts/annotate-output.sh in devscripts before 2.12.2, as used in rpmdevtools before 8.3, allows local users to modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the temporary (1) standard output or (2) standard error output file.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
1.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: High
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/rpmdevtools.git/commit/?id=90b4400c2ab2e80cecfd8dfdf031536376ed2cdb
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MISC
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848022
External Source: BID
Name: 55358
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20120831 [Notification] CVE-2012-3500 - rpmdevtools, devscripts: TOCTOU race condition in annotate-output
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-2549
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 50600
Type: Advisory
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2012-13208
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2012-13263
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2012-13234
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=devscripts/devscripts.git;a=commit;h=4d23a5e6c90f7a37b0972b30f5d31dce97a93eb0