Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1472-1 libcgroup -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

20 Aug 2018

Affected Packages:

libcgroup

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 906308.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-14348.

More information:

The cgrulesengd daemon in libcgroup creates log files with world readable and writable permissions due to a reset of the file mode creation mask (umask(0)).

For Debian 8 Jessie, this problem has been fixed in version 0.41-6+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libcgroup packages.

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