Source: rear Version: 2.7+dfsg-1.1 Severity: important Tags: security upstream Forwarded: https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/3122 X-Debbugs-Cc: car...@debian.org, Debian Security Team <t...@security.debian.org> Control: found -1 2.7+dfsg-1
Hi, The following vulnerability was published for rear. CVE-2024-23301[0]: | Relax-and-Recover (aka ReaR) through 2.7 creates a world-readable | initrd when using GRUB_RESCUE=y. This allows local attackers to gain | access to system secrets otherwise only readable by root. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-23301 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-23301 [1] https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/3122 [2] https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/3123 [3] https://github.com/rear/rear/commit/89b61793d80bc2cb2abe47a7d0549466fb087d16 Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. Regards, Salvatore
