Advisories » MGASA-2016-0387

Updated dracut packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 17 Nov 2016
Modification date: 17 Nov 2016
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2016-8637

Description

A local information disclosure issue was found in dracut when generating
initramfs images with world-readable permissions when "early cpio" is
used, such as when including microcode updates. Local attacker can use
this to obtain sensitive information from these files, such as encryption
keys or credentials (CVE-2016-8637).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19731
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/2VA7LTNATN2EKBHSSHB35W5AXITXVLG6/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8637

SRPMS

5/core

• dracut-038-21.1.mga5