CVE-2012-4454 Information

Description

openCryptoki before 2.4.1 when using spinlocks allows local users to create or set world-writable permissions on arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) .pkapi_xpk or (2) .pkcs11spinloc file in /tmp.

Reference

http://opencryptoki.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=opencryptoki/opencryptoki;a=commitdiff;h=58345488c9351d9be9a4be27c8b407c2706a33a9 http://opencryptoki.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=opencryptoki/opencryptoki;a=commitdiff;h=b7fcb3eb0319183348f1f4fb90ede4edd6487c30 http://secunia.com/advisories/50702 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=28878345 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/07/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/07/6 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/09/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/20/6 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/25/5 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/27/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55627 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730636 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78797