Name | CVE-2018-14329 |
Description | In HTSlib 1.8, a race condition in cram/cram_io.c might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
NVD severity | low |
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
---|---|---|---|
htslib (PTS) | stretch | 1.3.2-2 | vulnerable |
buster | 1.9-11 | vulnerable | |
bullseye, sid | 1.11-4 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
htslib | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant |
https://github.com/samtools/htslib/issues/736
Neutralised by kernel hardening