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CVE-2016-4036 (GCVE-0-2016-4036)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-04-18 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:17
VLAI
Summary
The quagga package before 0.99.23-2.6.1 in openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP 1 uses weak permissions for /etc/quagga, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading files in the directory.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/87324 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770619 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-0… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3654 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Date Public
2016-04-14 00:00
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