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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-12027: Passenger: Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-12027: Passenger: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/17/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/23/2018
Modified
08/14/2018

Description

An Insecure Permissions vulnerability in SpawningKit in Phusion Passenger 5.3.x before 5.3.2 causes information disclosure in the following situation: given a Passenger-spawned application process that reports that it listens on a certain Unix domain socket, if any of the parent directories of said socket are writable by a normal user that is not the application's user, then that non-application user can swap that directory with something else, resulting in traffic being redirected to a non-application user's process through an alternative Unix domain socket.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-www-apache-passenger

References

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