Advisories » MGASA-2021-0021

Updated guava packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 10 Jan 2021
Modification date: 10 Jan 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2020-8908

Description

A temp directory creation vulnerability exist in Guava versions prior to 30.0
allowing an attacker with access to the machine to potentially access data in a
temporary directory created by the Guava
com.google.common.io.Files.createTempDir(). The permissions granted to the
directory created default to the standard unix-like /tmp ones, leaving the
files open (CVE-2020-8908).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27965
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1906919
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-8908

SRPMS

7/core

• guava-25.0-2.1.mga7