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Alpine Linux: xfsprogs Security wrong owner / group on XFS binaries

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Alpine Linux: xfsprogs Security wrong owner / group on XFS binaries

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/03/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/07/2018
Modified
02/20/2020

Description

In version 4.14.0-r0 of xfsprogs, xfsprogs-libs, xfsprogs-extra, xfsprogs-doc installed from <a href="http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.7/main">http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.7/main</a> all files installed have owner/group = 1000/1000 which is a huge security hole.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-xfsprogs

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