Description
The mkdir procedure of GNU Guile 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 is fixed in Guile 2.0.13. Prior versions are affected.
Published: 2017-01-12
Score: 5.3 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-666-1 guile-2.0 security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-9452 The mkdir procedure of GNU Guile 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 is fixed in Guile 2.0.13. Prior versions are affected.
History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00122}

epss

{'score': 0.00089}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T02:27:41.259Z

Reserved: 2016-10-11T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-8605

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-01-12T22:59:00.250

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2016-8605

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2016-10-10T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-8605 - Bugzilla

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