CVE-2013-4136

Description

ext/common/ServerInstanceDir.h in Phusion Passenger gem before 4.0.6 for Ruby allows local users to gain privileges or possibly change the ownership of arbitrary directories via a symlink attack on a directory with a predictable name in /tmp/.

Affected packages (2)

• Debian/passengerfrom 0, < 3.0.13debian-1.2
• RubyGems/passengerfrom 0, < 4.0.6

References (10)

• ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w6rc-q387-vpgq
• ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4136
• ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4136
• PATCHhttps://github.com/phusion/passenger
• WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1136.html
• WEBhttps://code.google.com/p/phusion-passenger/issues/detail?id=910
• WEBhttps://github.com/phusion/passenger/blob/release-4.0.6/NEWS
• WEBhttps://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/5483b3292cc2af1c83033eaaadec20dba4dcfd9b
• WEBhttps://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/passenger/CVE-2013-4136.yml
• WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/16/6