CVE-2016-8605

The mkdir procedure of GNU Guile temporarily changed the process' umask to zero

published January 12, 2017

CVSS
—
EPSS
3%
Percentile
86.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.02765 · 86.1th percentile
Published
2017-01-12T22:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 JAN 22:00Z
    The mkdir procedure of GNU Guile temporarily changed the process' umask to zero
    cvelistv5