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CVE-2011-3589 (GCVE-0-2011-3589)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-02-15 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 23:37
VLAI
Summary
The Red Hat mkdumprd script for kexec-tools, as distributed in the kexec-tools 1.x before 1.102pre-154 and 2.x before 2.0.0-209 packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, uses world-readable permissions for vmcore files, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by inspecting the file content, as demonstrated by a search for a root SSH key.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716439 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1532.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0152.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Date Public
2011-10-05 00:00
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