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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 00:07:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: ludo@....org
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, wingo@...ox.com, mhw@...ris.org
Subject: Re: CVE request: GNU Guile <= 2.0.12: Thread-unsafe umask modification

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> The mkdir procedure of GNU Guile, an implementation of the Scheme
> programming language, temporarily changed the process' umask to zero.
> During that time window, in a multithreaded application, other threads
> could end up creating files with insecure permissions. For example,
> mkdir without the optional mode argument would create directories
> as 0777.
> 
> This can be worked around by always passing the optional mode argument
> to Guile's mkdir procedure.
> 
> This will be fixed in Guile 2.0.13, to be released shortly.
> 
> Patch: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/commit/?h=stable-2.0&id=245608911698adb3472803856019bdd5670b6614
> Upstream bug report: http://bugs.gnu.org/24659

>> changes the process' umask globally for a short duration

Use CVE-2016-8605.

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