medium5.7
CVE-2019-12449
An issue was discovered in GNOME gvfs 1.29.4 through 1.41.2.
Impact
An issue was discovered in GNOME gvfs 1.29.4 through 1.41.2. daemon/gvfsbackendadmin.c mishandles a file's user and group ownership during move (and copy with G_FILE_COPY_ALL_METADATA) operations from admin:// to file:// URIs, because root privileges are unavailable.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Gnome | Gvfs | from 1.29.4 through 1.41.2 |
| Canonical | Ubuntu Linux | Versions 16.04, 18.04, 18.10, 19.04 |
| Fedoraproject | Fedora | Versions 29, 30 |
| Opensuse | Leap | Versions 15.0, 15.1 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00008.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00009.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/07/09/3
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/commit/409619412e11be146a31b9a99ed965925f1aabb8
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FP6BFQUPQRVRRFIYHFWWB6RHJNEB4LGQ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M2DQVOL5H5BVLXYCEB763DCIYJQ7ZUQ2/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4053-1/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00008.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00009.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/07/09/3
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/commit/409619412e11be146a31b9a99ed965925f1aabb8
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FP6BFQUPQRVRRFIYHFWWB6RHJNEB4LGQ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M2DQVOL5H5BVLXYCEB763DCIYJQ7ZUQ2/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4053-1/