UNKNOWN RubyGems
insecure temporary directory usage in passenger
GHSA-w6rc-q387-vpgq · CVE-2013-4136
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Description
ext/common/ServerInstanceDir.h in Phusion Passenger gem before 4.0.6 for Ruby allows local users to gain privileges or possibly change the ownership of arbitrary directories via a symlink attack on a directory with a predictable name in /tmp/.
References
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4136
- WEB https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/5483b3292cc2af1c83033eaaadec20dba4dcfd9b
- WEB https://code.google.com/p/phusion-passenger/issues/detail?id=910
- ADVISORY https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w6rc-q387-vpgq
- PACKAGE https://github.com/phusion/passenger
- WEB https://github.com/phusion/passenger/blob/release-4.0.6/NEWS
- WEB https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/passenger/CVE-2013-4136.yml
- WEB http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1136.html
- WEB http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/16/6
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