CVE-2016-4036 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2016-4036?

CVE-2016-4036 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Opensuse Leap, published on 18 Apr 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The quagga package before 0.99.23-2.6.1 in openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP 1 uses weak permissions for /etc/quagga, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading files in the directory.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-4036?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Opensuse Leap, Opensuse Opensuse.

How do I fix CVE-2016-4036?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2016-4036 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-4036 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Opensuse Leap

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• CVE-2017-14804 package builds could use directory traversal to write outside of target area Critical 9.9
• CVE-2019-20787 Teeworlds before 0.7.4 has an integer overflow when computing a tilemap size. Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-8341 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-6438 Other in n/a Critical 9.8

All Opensuse Leap vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-mcf9-56wg-9grv, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4036.