libuser: CVE-2012-5630 CVE-2012-5644

Bug #1210215 reported by Andreas Moog
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libuser (Debian)
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libuser (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Imported from Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/705690:

Package: libuser
Severity: important
Tags: security

Hi,

the following vulnerabilities were published for libuser.

CVE-2012-5630[0]:
TOCTOU race conditions by copying and removing directory trees

CVE-2012-5644[1]:
(Complete) Information disclosure when moving user's home directory

The patch however looks unfortunately quite substantial, see [2], so
might be better to update for unstable directly to the new upstream
version.

If you fix the vulnerabilities please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) ids in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5630
[1] http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5644
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=885724#c7

Regards,
Salvatore

CVE References

Andreas Moog (ampelbein)
Changed in libuser (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
information type: Public → Public Security
Andreas Moog (ampelbein)
description: updated
Changed in libuser (Debian):
importance: Undecided → Unknown
Changed in libuser (Debian):
status: New → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri) wrote :

in the meantime this has been fixed and synced.

Changed in libuser (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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