rear: CVE-2024-23301

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2024-23301  

Debian Bug report logs - #1060747
rear: CVE-2024-23301

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Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>

Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2024 16:27:01 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: security, upstream

Found in versions rear/2.7+dfsg-1.1, rear/2.7+dfsg-1

Forwarded to https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/3122

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, carnil@debian.org, team@security.debian.org, Frédéric Bonnard <frediz@debian.org>:
Bug#1060747; Package src:rear. (Sat, 13 Jan 2024 16:27:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: rear: CVE-2024-23301
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2024 17:23:03 +0100
Source: rear
Version: 2.7+dfsg-1.1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/3122
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil@debian.org, Debian Security Team <team@security.debian.org>
Control: found -1 2.7+dfsg-1

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for rear.

CVE-2024-23301[0]:
| Relax-and-Recover (aka ReaR) through 2.7 creates a world-readable
| initrd when using GRUB_RESCUE=y. This allows local attackers to gain
| access to system secrets otherwise only readable by root.


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

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-23301
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-23301
[1] https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/3122
[2] https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/3123
[3] https://github.com/rear/rear/commit/89b61793d80bc2cb2abe47a7d0549466fb087d16

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore



Marked as found in versions rear/2.7+dfsg-1. Request was from Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> to submit@bugs.debian.org. (Sat, 13 Jan 2024 16:27:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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