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.
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 5.3
- CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Linux | — | Upgrade guile | Sep 20, 2017 | Jan 12, 2017 |
| Arch Linux | — | Upgrade to the latest version of Arch Linux | Jul 11, 2025 | Jan 12, 2017 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade guile-2.0 | Mar 31, 2017 | Oct 18, 2016 |
| Freebsd | — | Upgrade guile2 | Feb 5, 2017 | Feb 4, 2017 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp2 | — | Upgrade guile | Dec 4, 2019 | Jan 12, 2017 |
| Redhat_linux | — | No solution exists | Jul 9, 2025 | Oct 10, 2016 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade guileUpgrade libguile-srfi-srfi-13-14-v-3-3Upgrade guile1Upgrade libguilereadline-v-18-18Upgrade libguile-srfi-srfi-60-v-2-2Upgrade libguile17Upgrade guile-modules-2_0Upgrade libguile-2_0-22Upgrade guile-develUpgrade libguilereadline-v-17-17Upgrade libguile1-develUpgrade libguile-srfi-srfi-1-v-3-3Upgrade libguile-srfi-srfi-4-v-3-3 | Jan 12, 2017 | Jan 12, 2017 |
| Ubuntu | — | No solution exists | Jun 26, 2025 | Jan 12, 2017 |
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