CVE-2013-2142

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2013-05-31
CWE:
CWE-377
Bugzilla:
970172: CVE-2013-2142 libimobiledevice: Insecure temporary file use when both $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and $HOME are unset

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

userpref.c in libimobiledevice 1.1.4, when $HOME and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME are not set, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) HostCertificate.pem, (2) HostPrivateKey.pem, (3) libimobiledevicerc, (4) RootCertificate.pem, or (5) RootPrivateKey.pem in /tmp/root/.config/libimobiledevice/.

Find out more about CVE-2013-2142 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the version of libimobiledevice as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 as it did not include the upstream commit 825da48d2e9c20086c4e34869da0b28376676b4c that introduced this issue.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 1.2
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 libimobiledevice Not affected

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