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CVE-2015-3248 (GCVE-0-2015-3248)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-09-26 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 05:39
VLAI
Summary
openhpi/Makefile.am in OpenHPI before 3.6.0 uses world-writable permissions for /var/lib/openhpi directory, which allows local users, when quotas are not properly setup, to fill the filesystem hosting /var/lib and cause a denial of service (disk consumption).
CWE
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References
Date Public
2015-06-19 00:00
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