Title: Teradata Virtual Machine Community Edition v15.10 Insecure creation of files in /tmp
Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0
Date: 2016-10-01
Download Site: http://downloads.teradata.com/download/database/teradata-virtual-machine-community-edition-for-vmware
Vendor: Teradata
Vendor Notified: 2016-10-01
Vendor Contact: web form contact
Description: Teradata is a relational database, they provide a Virtual Machine image for developers and…
Severity: Medium
Affected versions: M(6.0)
Reported on: May 26, 2016
Disclosure status: Privately disclosed.
The vulnerability allowing unauthorized access to system APIs from system
service with improper access control enables attackers to control…
Throughout November, I plan to release details on vulnerabilities I
found in web-browsers which I’ve not released before. This is the
thirteenth entry in that series. Unfortunately I won’t be able to
publish everything within one month at the current rate, so I may
continue to publish these through December and January.
Throughout November, I plan to release details on vulnerabilities I
found in web-browsers which I’ve not released before. This is the
twelfth entry in that series. Unfortunately I won’t be able to publish
everything within one month at the current rate, so I may continue to
publish these through December and January.
This wording appears to have caused a lot of misunderstanding. afaict,
the binary executable ‘cryptsetup’ has nothing to do with this bug.
Rather, it is completely in the initrd’s script for decrypting a
partition containing the rootfs.
On Debian based systems, the initrd script is in the cryptsetup package,
but if one looks at the upstream repository for cryptsetup: