Description
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Berkeley DB NSS module (aka libnss-db) 2.2.3pre1 reads the DB_CONFIG file in the current working directory, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via a symlink attack involving a setgid or setuid application that uses this module.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0903 ↗
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libnss-db/+bug/531976 ↗
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6681 ↗
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10727 ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:077 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39165 ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-922-1 ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0841 ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038760.html ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0776 ↗
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39132 ↗