Upstream information

CVE-2016-4982 at MITRE

Description

authd sets weak permissions for /etc/ident.key, which allows local users to obtain the key by leveraging a race condition between the creation of the key, and the chmod to protect it.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having low severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database SUSE
Base Score 1.9 2.1
Vector AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Local Local
Access Complexity Medium Low
Authentication None None
Confidentiality Impact Partial Partial
Integrity Impact None None
Availability Impact None None
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 4.7
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None
CVSSv3 Version 3
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 984639 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

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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Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated.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 Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5-LTSS dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5 dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 dovecot22 Released
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
HPE Helion OpenStack 8 dovecot22 Released
SUSE Enterprise Storage 5 dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 dovecot22 Ignore
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1 dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2 dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3 dovecot22 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4 dovecot22 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 12 SP2-CLIENT dovecot22 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service Image Server 12 SP2 dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 dovecot22 Ignore
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-ESPOS dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 dovecot22 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-ESPOS dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 dovecot22 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-ESPOS dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS dovecot22 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 dovecot22 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 dovecot22 Ignore
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1 dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for the Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 dovecot22 Ignore
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP1 dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2 dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP3 dovecot22 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP4 dovecot22 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 dovecot22 Released
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 dovecot22 Released
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 dovecot22 Released
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 dovecot22 Released
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 dovecot22 Released
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 dovecot22 Released


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Mon Jun 13 21:45:09 2016
CVE page last modified: Tue Dec 17 20:12:13 2024