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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-13313: libosinfo osinfo-install-script option leaks password via command line argument

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-13313: libosinfo osinfo-install-script option leaks password via command line argument

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
07/05/2019
Created
12/18/2019
Added
11/08/2019
Modified
12/04/2019

Description

libosinfo 1.5.0 allows local users to discover credentials by listing a process, because credentials are passed to osinfo-install-script via the command line.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-libssh2

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