CVE-1999-1572
N/A
Published: January 29, 2005 at 05:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 09:50 PM UTC
6 products affected across 5 vendorsDebian LinuxUbuntu LinuxEnterprise Linux
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.6%
Description
cpio on FreeBSD 2.1.0, Debian GNU/Linux 3.0, and possibly other operating systems, uses a 0 umask when creating files using the -O (archive) or -F options, which creates the files with mode 0666 and allows local users to read or overwrite those files.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (14)
Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Source: [email protected]
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110763404701519&w=2x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-212.pdfVendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-664Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKE
Source: [email protected]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:032Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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