CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-6249
2.1 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-12-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
Description
etc-update in Portage before 2.1.3.11 on Gentoo Linux relies on the umask to set permissions for the merge file, often resulting in permissions weaker than those of the original files, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the merge file.
Affected configurations
• gentoo portage (<= 2.1.3.10)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193589 Exploit
- http://osvdb.org/42636 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28094 secunia.com
- http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/portage?rev=7799&view=rev Exploit
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200712-11.xml www.gentoo.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26864 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019097 www.securitytracker.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39035 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193589 Exploit
- http://osvdb.org/42636 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28094 secunia.com
- http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/portage?rev=7799&view=rev Exploit
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200712-11.xml www.gentoo.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26864 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019097 www.securitytracker.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39035 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com