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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-8605: Vulnerability in Multiple Components

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jan 12, 2017
Added
Sep 20, 2017
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

The mkdir procedure of GNU Guile temporarily changed the process' umask to zero. During that time window, in a multithreaded application, other threads could end up creating files with insecure permissions. For example, mkdir without the optional mode argument would create directories as 0777. This is fixed in Guile 2.0.13. Prior versions are affected.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-guile
Title
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