oss-security - CVE Request: GnuTLS: GNUTLS-SA-2016-1: File overwrite by setuid programs

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Message-ID: <20160607064527.GA20067@lorien.valinor.li>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 08:45:27 +0200
From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@...ian.org>
To: OSS Security Mailinglist <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: CVE Request: GnuTLS: GNUTLS-SA-2016-1: File overwrite by setuid
 programs

Hi

GnuTLS 3.4.13 was released addressing GNUTLS-SA-2016-1,
http://gnutls.org/security.html#GNUTLS-SA-2016-1 :

> Setuid programs using GnuTLS 3.4.12 could potentially allow an
> attacker to overwrite and corrupt arbitrary files in the filesystem.
> This issue was introduced in GnuTLS 3.4.12 and fixed in GnuTLS 3.4.13.
> Recommendation: Upgrade to GnuTLS 3.4.13, or later versions.

The relevant upstream commits seem to be:

https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/compare/fb2a6baef79f4aadfd95e657fe5a18da20a1410e...86076c9b17b9a32b348cafb8b724f57f7da64d58

Can you assign a CVE for this issue?

Regards,
Salvatore

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