CVE-2013-4159

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2013-10-30
Bugzilla:
986773: CVE-2013-4159 ctdb: /tmp file vulnerability issues

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

ctdb before 2.3 in OpenSUSE 12.3 and 13.1 does not create temporary files securely, which has unspecified impact related to "several temp file vulnerabilities" in (1) tcp/tcp_connect.c, (2) server/eventscript.c, (3) tools/ctdb_diagnostics, (4) config/gdb_backtrace, and (5) include/ctdb_private.h.

Find out more about CVE-2013-4159 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having Low security impact. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

CVSS v2 metrics

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

Base Score 2.1
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Gluster Storage 2.1 ctdb Will not fix
Red Hat Gluster Storage 2.0 ctdb Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ctdb Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ctdb Fix deferred
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ctdb Will not fix

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