CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1572

2.1 LOW Published 1996-07-16 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1996-07-16
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Description

cpio on FreeBSD 2.1.0, Debian GNU/Linux 3.0, and possibly other operating systems, uses a 0 umask when creating files using the -O (archive) or -F options, which creates the files with mode 0666 and allows local users to read or overwrite those files.

Affected configurations

• debian debian linux 3.0 • freebsd freebsd 2.1.0 • mandrakesoft mandrake linux 9.2 • mandrakesoft mandrake linux 10.0 • mandrakesoft mandrake linux 10.1 • mandrakesoft mandrake linux cs2.1 • mandrakesoft mandrake linux cs3.0 • redhat enterprise linux 4.0 • redhat enterprise linux desktop 4.0 • ubuntu ubuntu linux 4.10

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