CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-4358
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-12-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
freebsd-update in FreeBSD 8.0, 7.2, 7.1, 6.4, and 6.3 uses insecure permissions in its working directory (/var/db/freebsd-update by default), which allows local users to read copies of sensitive files after a (1) freebsd-update fetch (fetch) or (2) freebsd-update upgrade (upgrade) operation.
Affected configurations
• freebsd freebsd 6.3
• freebsd freebsd 6.4
• freebsd freebsd 7.1
• freebsd freebsd 7.2
• freebsd freebsd 8.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37575 Vendor Advisory
- http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-09:17.freebsd-update.asc security.freebsd.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37190 Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37575 Vendor Advisory
- http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-09:17.freebsd-update.asc security.freebsd.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37190 Patch