7.8 - CVE-2009-3289

Executive Summary

This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.

Informations
Name	CVE-2009-3289	First vendor Publication	2009-09-22
Vendor	Cve	Last vendor Modification	2024-11-21

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Overall CVSS Score	7.8
Base Score	7.8	Environmental Score	7.8
impact SubScore	5.9	Temporal Score	7.8
Exploitabality Sub Score	1.8

Attack Vector	Local	Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	Low	User Interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged	Confidentiality Impact	High
Integrity Impact	High	Availability Impact	High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score	4.4	Attack Range	Local
Cvss Impact Score	6.4	Attack Complexity	Medium
Cvss Expoit Score	3.4	Authentication	None Required
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Detail

The g_file_copy function in glib 2.0 sets the permissions of a target file to the permissions of a symbolic link (777), which allows user-assisted local users to modify files of other users, as demonstrated by using Nautilus to modify the permissions of the user home directory.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3289

CAPEC : Common Attack Pattern Enumeration & Classification

Id	Name
CAPEC-1	Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs
CAPEC-17	Accessing, Modifying or Executing Executable Files
CAPEC-60	Reusing Session IDs (aka Session Replay)
CAPEC-61	Session Fixation
CAPEC-62	Cross Site Request Forgery (aka Session Riding)
CAPEC-122	Exploitation of Authorization
CAPEC-180	Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels
CAPEC-232	Exploitation of Privilege/Trust
CAPEC-234	Hijacking a privileged process

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

%	Id	Name
100 %	CWE-732	Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource (CWE/SANS Top 25)

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13014

Oval ID:	oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13014
Title:	USN-841-1 -- glib2.0 vulnerability
Description:	Arand Nash discovered that applications linked to GLib did not correctly copy symlinks. If a user copied symlinks with GLib, the symlink target files would become world-writable, allowing local attackers to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
Family:	unix	Class:	patch
Reference(s):	USN-841-1 CVE-2009-3289	Version:	5
Platform(s):	Ubuntu 8.10 Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 9.04	Product(s):	glib2.0
Definition Synopsis:
Release section Ubuntu 8.10 is installed AND Architecture section Architecture independent section Installed architecture is all AND Packages section libglib2.0-doc DPKG is earlier than 2.18.2-0ubuntu2.2 AND libglib2.0-data DPKG is earlier than 2.18.2-0ubuntu2.2 OR Architecture depended section Supported architectures section Installed architecture is amd64 AND Installed architecture is i386 AND Installed architecture is powerpc AND Installed architecture is sparc AND Installed architecture is lpia AND Packages section libglib2.0-0 DPKG is earlier than 2.18.2-0ubuntu2.2 AND libglib2.0-0-dbg DPKG is earlier than 2.18.2-0ubuntu2.2 AND libglib2.0-udeb DPKG is earlier than 2.18.2-0ubuntu2.2 AND libgio-fam DPKG is earlier than 2.18.2-0ubuntu2.2 AND libglib2.0-dev DPKG is earlier than 2.18.2-0ubuntu2.2 OR Release section Ubuntu 8.04 is installed AND Architecture section Architecture independent section Installed architecture is all AND Packages section libglib2.0-doc DPKG is earlier than 2.16.6-0ubuntu1.2 AND libglib2.0-data DPKG is earlier than 2.16.6-0ubuntu1.2 OR Architecture depended section Supported architectures section Installed architecture is amd64 AND Installed architecture is i386 AND Installed architecture is powerpc AND Installed architecture is sparc AND Installed architecture is lpia AND Packages section libglib2.0-0 DPKG is earlier than 2.16.6-0ubuntu1.2 AND libglib2.0-0-dbg DPKG is earlier than 2.16.6-0ubuntu1.2 AND libglib2.0-udeb DPKG is earlier than 2.16.6-0ubuntu1.2 AND libgio-fam DPKG is earlier than 2.16.6-0ubuntu1.2 AND libglib2.0-dev DPKG is earlier than 2.16.6-0ubuntu1.2 OR Release section Ubuntu 9.04 is installed AND Architecture section Architecture independent section Installed architecture is all AND Packages section libglib2.0-doc DPKG is earlier than 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1 AND libglib2.0-data DPKG is earlier than 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1 OR Architecture depended section Supported architectures section Installed architecture is amd64 AND Installed architecture is i386 AND Installed architecture is powerpc AND Installed architecture is sparc AND Installed architecture is lpia AND Packages section libglib2.0-0 DPKG is earlier than 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1 AND libglib2.0-0-dbg DPKG is earlier than 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1 AND libglib2.0-udeb DPKG is earlier than 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1 AND libgio-fam DPKG is earlier than 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1 AND libglib2.0-dev DPKG is earlier than 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

Type	Description	Count
Application	Gnome Glib cpe:2.3:a:gnome:glib:2.0:::::::*	1
Os	Opensuse cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:11.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:11.0:::::::*	2
Os	Suse Suse Linux Enterprise Server cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux_enterprise_server:11:-::::::	1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date	Description
2009-10-13	Name : Ubuntu USN-841-1 (glib2.0) File : nvt/ubuntu_841_1.nasl
2009-09-28	Name : Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:245 (glib2.0) File : nvt/mdksa_2009_245.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id	Description
58345	glib g_file_copy Function Symlink Arbitrary File Permission Modification

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date	Description
2010-12-02	Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates. File : suse_11_glib2-100119.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-04-27	Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : suse_11_0_glib2-100119.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-04-27	Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : suse_11_1_glib2-100119.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-10-06	Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : ubuntu_USN-841-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-09-25	Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : mandriva_MDVSA-2009-245.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-04/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/39656
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/08/8
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1001
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glib2.0/+bug/418135
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593406

Source	Url

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Date	Informations
2024-11-28 23:10:17	Multiple Updates
2024-11-28 12:19:51	Multiple Updates
2024-02-08 17:28:08	Multiple Updates
2021-05-04 12:10:12	Multiple Updates
2021-04-22 01:10:38	Multiple Updates
2020-05-23 00:24:20	Multiple Updates
2016-04-26 19:07:44	Multiple Updates
2014-02-17 10:51:40	Multiple Updates
2013-05-10 23:57:47	Multiple Updates

Global Informations

Type	Count
Capec ID(s)	9
CWE ID(s)	2
Oval ID(s)	1
CPE ID(s)	4
Sources(s)	6
osvdb(s)	1
Openvas Exploit(s)	2
Nessus® Exploit(s)	5

	Related
4.4	MDVSA-2009:245
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