CVE-2009-3289

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-09-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-732

Description

The g_file_copy function in glib 2.0 sets the permissions of a target file to the permissions of a symbolic link (777), which allows user-assisted local users to modify files of other users, as demonstrated by using Nautilus to modify the permissions of the user home directory.

Affected products

GNOME GLib: 2.0
Opensuse: 11.0, 11.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise: 11

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-04/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/39656
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/08/8
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1001
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glib2.0/+bug/418135
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593406
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-04/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/39656
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/08/8
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1001
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glib2.0/+bug/418135
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593406

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