CVE-2016-8605 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2016-8605?

CVE-2016-8605 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 12 Jan 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-275

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-8605?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Gnu Guile.

How do I fix CVE-2016-8605?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2016-8605 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-8605 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2016-8605, GHSA-jxp8-7966-cm98, MGASA-2021-0340, SUSE-SU-2017:0394-1, SUSE-SU-2017:0398-1, SUSE-SU-2020:1659-1 and 2 more.