CVE-1999-1572 - Elucidative Nylons

Description

cpio on FreeBSD 2.1.0 Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 and possibly other operating systems uses a 0 umask when creating files using the -O (archive) or -F options which creates the files with mode 0666 and allows local users to read or overwrite those files.

Reference

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/1391 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-664 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-073.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-080.html http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0003/ http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-212.pdf http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-806.html http://secunia.com/advisories/14357 http://secunia.com/advisories/17063 http://secunia.com/advisories/17532 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:032 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110763404701519&w=2 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19167 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10888