Upstream information

CVE-2009-4135 at MITRE

Description

The distcheck rule in dist-check.mk in GNU coreutils 5.2.1 through 8.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file in a directory tree under /tmp.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 4.4
Vector AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 564373 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1 coreutils Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 coreutils Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 coreutils Analysis
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 coreutils Analysis
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 coreutils Analysis
SUSE Manager Server 4.3 coreutils Analysis
Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP4 coreutils Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 coreutils Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS coreutils Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 coreutils Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP4 coreutils Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 coreutils Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-LTSS coreutils Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 coreutils Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 coreutils Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 coreutils Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 coreutils Analysis
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0 coreutils Unsupported
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7 coreutils Unsupported
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 coreutils Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 coreutils Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 coreutils Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 coreutils Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS coreutils Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11 SP3 coreutils Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP3 coreutils Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 coreutils Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2-LTSS coreutils Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 coreutils Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS coreutils Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 coreutils Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS coreutils Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL coreutils Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-ESPOS coreutils Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS coreutils Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-LTSS coreutils Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 coreutils Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1 coreutils Unsupported
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 coreutils Unsupported
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 coreutils Unsupported

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 17:21:10 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Nov 1 11:19:05 2024