| Name | CVE-2013-4419 |
| Description | The guestfish command in libguestfs 1.20.12, 1.22.7, and earlier, when using the --remote or --listen option, does not properly check the ownership of /tmp/.guestfish-$UID/ when creating a temporary socket file in this directory, which allows local users to write to the socket and execute arbitrary commands by creating /tmp/.guestfish-$UID/ in advance. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| libguestfs (PTS) | buster | 1:1.40.2-2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1:1.44.0-2 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 1:1.48.6-2 | fixed | |
| trixie | 1:1.52.0-2 | fixed | |
| sid | 1:1.52.0-5 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| libguestfs | source | wheezy | 1:1.18.1-1+deb7u3 | |||
| libguestfs | source | (unstable) | 1:1.22.7-1 |