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CVE-2012-5638

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-12-20 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The setup_logging function in log.h in SANLock uses world-writable permissions for /var/log/sanlock.log, which allows local users to overwrite the file content or bypass intended disk-quota restrictions via standard filesystem write operations.

Affected products

• oVirt Sanlock: all versions

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0691.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=887010
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0691.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=887010

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