CVE-2016-8605 describes a vulnerability in GNU Guile's mkdir procedure, where it temporarily set the process umask to zero. This could lead to other threads in a multithreaded application creating files or directories with insecure permissions (e.g., 0777) during this brief window, affecting Guile versions prior to 2.0.13 and various Fedora products. Rated 5.3 MEDIUM (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N), the vulnerability is network-exploitable with low attack complexity, potentially leading to information integrity issues. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
23CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:23:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
24CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:24:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
25CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:25:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 2.0.12CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:guile:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
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