CVE-2016-5746 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2016-5746?

CVE-2016-5746 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Opensuse Leap, published on 26 Sep 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

libstorage, libstorage-ng, and yast-storage improperly store passphrases for encrypted storage devices in a temporary file on disk, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the file, as demonstrated by /tmp/libstorage-XXXXXX/pwdf.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-5746?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Opensuse Leap, Opensuse Libstorage, Opensuse Libstorage-Ng, Yast Yast-Storage.

How do I fix CVE-2016-5746?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2016-5746 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-5746 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Opensuse Leap

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• 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
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Also known as GHSA-v7w5-2xfr-963c, SUSE-SU-2016:2189-1, SUSE-SU-2016:2353-1, SUSE-SU-2016:2355-1.